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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
This chapter describes the method of the research. The description is organized into six subheadings: type of the research; population and sample of the
research; setting of the research; data collection technique and instrument; data analysis technique; and procedure of the research.
A. Type of the Research
The study is categorized as Research and Development RD since the aim and result of the research is to develop a product i.e., a set of materials that
can be used in an educational program.
B. Population and Sample
In conducting the study, two different population were taken by the researcher in which the samples were taken randomly.
a. Grade ten students of Visual Communication Design program of SMK
Koperasi Yogyakarta. The first sample was labeled as subject. b.
An English lecturer in English Education Department of Yogyakarta State University. The second sample was labeled as evaluator.
C. Setting of the Research
The research took place in SMK Koperasi Yogyakarta that is located at Jalan Kapas 5 Yogyakarta. It has three study programs, those are accounting,
marketing, and visual communication design program. There are three classes of accounting, two classes of marketing, and one class of visual communication
design program since it is a new study program. The observation was held on June 2014.
D. Data Collection Technique and Instrument
In this study, two questionnaires were used by the researcher to collect data. The first questionnaire aimed to assess the learners’ needs, thus, this
questionnaire was applied to subject. The second questionnaire aimed to evaluate designed materials and to find out if the materials are already suitable with the
learners’ needs or not, therefore, this questionnaire was applied to evaluator.
In the first questionnaire, the subject was asked several questions related to their learning needs by answering multiple choice questions. This questionnaire
was gi ven to collect learners’ needs. The organization of the first questionnaire is
presented on the table below.
Table 3.1 Organization of the first questionnaire for needs analysis
Aspects Item Number
The Purpose of the Questionnaire
References
Learners’ Identities
Section I To find out who the students are
Graves 2000: 103
Hutchinson and
Waters 1987: 63
Learners’ goal
1 To find out the learners’goal in
learning English Graves
2000: 104 continued
continued Necessities 2,3
To find out what the students need in the target situation for
their job in the future. To find out what the students
need in the target situation for their job as students.
Hutchinson and
Waters 1987: 55
Wants 4
To find out what the students want to be included in the
materials Hutchinson
and Waters
1987: 56 Lacks
5 To find out the gap between what
the students have known and what they should know
Hutchinson and
Waters 1987: 55-56
Input 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13, 14 To find out the spoken, written,
and visual data that should be included in the materials
Nunan 2004: 47
Procedure 15, 16, 17, 18,
19, 20, 21 To find out what the students
should do with the input within the tasks
Nunan 2004: 52
Setting 22, 23
To find out in what situations the learning process will take place
Nunan 2004: 70
Students’ role
24 To find out what the students
expect to take in carrying out the tasks
Nunan 2004: 64-69
Teacher’s role
25 To find out what part the teacher
should take in the instructional process.
Nunan 2004: 64-69
In the second questionnaire, the evaluator was asked for opinion considering the designed materials. The evaluator was asked to respond whether
they were Strongly Agree SA, Agree A, Disagree D, or Strongly Disagree SD. The questions of this questionnaire were derived from Instruments of
Evaluation of English Coursebooks for Vocational High School. The questions are divided into four parts, those are the appropriateness of content, the
appropriateness of language, the appropriateness of presentation, and the appropriateness of graphic.
E. Data Analysis Technique
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