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researcher selected the participants as the sample because they had experiences in making listening media using appropriate software in Language Teaching Media
class. Moreover, those two classes are taught by the same lecturer. That were the reasons the researcher only took those two classes out of five Language Teaching
Media classes.
D. Instrument and Data Gathering Technique
In order to obtain the data for this research, the researcher used questionnaire. The questionnaire is used to answers the research questions. The
following part describes the instruments used in this research.
1. Questionnaire
In this research, a questionnaire was distributed to investigate the answer to the first and the second research question. The first question was the steps
students took to make the listening media. Then the second question was about the students’ perceptions on the use of software in making listening media.
The researcher chose a questionnaire to obtain the explanation about the students’ perceptions on the use of software in making listening media and the
process. Gall, Gall, and Borg 2006 define questionnaires as the printed forms that ask the same questions of all individuals in the sample and for which
respondents record their answers in a verbal form p. 228.
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into two parts, the close-ended and the open-ended questions. Van Dalen 1979 states a close-ended question consists of concrete questions and a choice of
possible answer p. 126. The close-ended question is also called as fixed-choice question and this requires the respondents to choose on response from the
provided options, as state by Singleton and Straits 1999. The researcher provides the degree of agreement which is set to obtain the expression of the statements to
be agreed or disagreed with. Cohen, Manion, and Morrison 2000 define that the questionnaire scale contains degree of agreement which is set to gain the
expressions of opinion, interest, or value, problems to react to, or statements to agree or disagree with was Likert scale p. 253. The scale that is used by the
researcher is Likert Scale on one to five scales Brown Rodgers: 2004. The degree of agreement is strongly disagree, disagree, undecided, agree, and strongly
disagree. Below is the sample of the questionnaire. The full version of the questionnaire is attached in the Appendix A.
Table 3.1 Sample of the Questionnaire Form
SD: Strongly Disagree; D: Disagree; U: Undecided; A: Agree; SA: Strongly Agree
No Statements
SD D
U A
SA
1 I made a lesson plan before making the
listening media 2
I knew what class I was going to teach
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stated by Singleton and Straits 1999, an open-ended question requires respondents to answer the questions in their own words in a written form.
Students were given a chance to answer the questions freely. It was supported by Van Dalen 1979, “the open-form questionnaire permits the participants to
answer freely and fully in their own words and their own fram e of reference” p.
126.
2. Interview
