participants. Finally there were only 17 qualified participants who contributed in both test because three of the second group of participants missed the second test
and one of the first group of participants missed the second test. In order to gain a deep comprehension and due to time constraint, the
researcher chose one class only as research population randomly. The class taken as the participants was the microteaching class D of the academic year 20092010.
2. Participants for the Interview
The second participants were taken from the previous 17 participants. The researcher then, used extreme cases for choosing the second participants those
were one participant with the highest degree of comprehension of text types, one participant with the lowest degree of comprehension of text types, and to get
more comprehensive pictures the researcher then also interviewed one participant with the average degree of comprehension of text types.
3. Research Instruments
For accomplishing the research, the researcher used two instruments. The first instrument was tests and the second instrument was the interview.
1. Tests
Hughes 1989: 9 stated that there were four types of tests. Those were proficiency tests, achievement tests, diagnostic tests, and placement tests. The test
used by the writer was considered as a proficiency test because it was designed to PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
measure teachers’ ability in a language especially in text types regardless of any training they might have had in that language.
The test was divided into two parts, the first test and the second test. The first one tested the microteaching students’ mastery for the first six text types.
Those were recount, narrative, procedure, descriptive, news item, and analytical exposition. The first test was conducted on February 5
th
2010 at Microteaching Laboratory A. The second one tested the microteaching students’ mastery for the
rest six of the text types. Those were report, hortatory exposition, spoof, explanation, discussion, and review. The second test was conducted on March 1
st
2010 at Microteaching Laboratory A. The participants were to determine what kind of texts those were in the consideration of the social purpose, generic
structure, and lexicogrammatical features for each text. The data then were used to answer the first question of the problem formulation of the research.
2. An Interview
Downs, Smeyak, and Martin 1980 stated that there was three kind of interviews used in research. Those were personal interview, telephone interview,
and focus group interview. This research was using personal interview of face-to- face interview because the writer was interviewing all subjects in personal, not in
group and also without a telephone but in face-to-face situation. The interview was conducted on April 30
th
, 2010 at Microteaching Laboratory A. The researcher asked the participants the importance of comprehending
text types and its relation of their future job. The researcher then asked the PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
