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B. Research Setting
The research conducted in class 7C of SMP PL Bintang Laut. The researcher came to the school and gave the letter of permission to the headmaster.
After d ealing with the teacher’s schedule, the research was conducted for about 3
months from March-May 2014. The research was done by doing the class observation, giving the interviews to the teachers and the students, and giving the
questionnaire to the students.
C. Research Participants Subjects
The participants in this research were the students in class 7C as the randomly sample of the eight parallel classes for grade seven as the population.
7C students used as the first group of participants who were involved to the pre- design of this study research and information collecting. For the preliminary
testing, the researcher asked for the second group of participants for the post- design preliminary testing design. The participants in this group were one
lecturer and two English teachers from SMP PL Bintang Laut.
D. Instruments and Data Gathering Technique
As a qualitative inquiry, this study made the use of interviews and surveys to gather the data. The interviews were done with an English teacher of the school
and five students. The goal of this verbal data drawn from the interviews was to obtain information about needs analysis. In addition, this study also made use of
survey to gather the data. As shown in Appendix B, the questionnaire consisted of 17 questions. Through this survey, the data got from the interviews, questionnaire
and observation was used to compose a new set of materials that was designed for
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the seventh grade students in learning English based on Quantum Learning principles.
E. Data Analysis Technique
Based on the survey result, the researcher analyzed the needs of the students in order to develop a new set of material which was more suitable for the
students to learn English based on Quantum Learning principles. From the data collected, the researcher con
cluded the participants’ answer to obtain the students’ need and characteristics. In the observation, the researcher observed the learning
process by paying attention to the students’ attitude during the teaching-learning activity. The researcher also distributed the questionnaire to the students. All the
data collected were being analyzed to help the researcher in designing the material.
F. Research Procedure
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