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Curriculum. Furthermore, this research also analysed how the indicators were classified based on Blooms Taxonomy.
D. Research Instruments and Data Gathering Technique
This section elaborates the instruments and the data gathering techniques of this research. Research instruments part elaborates the types of instrument used
in order to obtain dependable data to answer the research questions. While the data gathering techniques part elaborates the techniques in obtaining the answer of
each research question.
1. Human Instrument
Ary, Jacobs Razavieh 2002 explain one of the major characteristics of qualitative research is human instrument. It means human was the main
instrument in gathering and analysing the data p. 420. Based on the explanation, the researcher was the research instrument in this research. To obtain the answer
of both research questions, the researcher gathered the data from Look Ahead and the School-Based Curriculum. The researcher wrote down all the indicators found
in Look Ahead. She also gathered the Basic Competences for second grade of senior high school from the curriculum. For her roles in this research, the
researcher was the research instrument. Furthermore, Poggenpoel and Myburgh 2003 explain that researcher as
the research instruments means the researcher was the key for obtain the data. In this research, the researcher had a role to obtain and analyse the data. The
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readers.
2. Document
Since this research belongs to document analysis, the document itself is the research instrument. Best 1959 explains the data that is commonly used in
document analysis could be taken from textbook and any recorded theory p. 133. In this research the document to be used was a textbook. The Look Ahead Second
Grade English textbook published at 2007 was chosen to be analysed since many schools use this textbook as it is the mostly used textbook. Look Ahead Second
Edition English textbook as the research instruments since the data in this research was taken from that textbook. The part of this textbook which became
the data for this research was the indicators. Another document to be used was the School-Based Curriculum. The
School-Based Curriculum was used to gather the data about the Basic Competences required for second grade of senior high school students. The
School-Based Curriculum as the research instrument since the basic competences used in this research was taken from the School-Based Curriculum.
E. Data Analysis Techniques
