B. Research Setting
The researcher conducted the survey on May 18
th
, 2012 until June 3
rd
, 2012. The researcher distributed the questionnaires and did interview in the first grade of Sekolah
Alam Nurul Islam Yogyakarta. The class consisted of 20 students.
C.
Research Participants
The participants were a class of students of SekolahAlam in Yogyakarta and that is Sekolah Alam Nurul Islam. They were the students of first grade of junior
high school. The researcher chose the first grade as the research participants because their emotions play an important role in all aspects of their activities,
including their activities in perceiving something. Therefore, those participants are able to provide meaningful data needed in this study. At this point the researcher
implemented the purposive sampling. According to Fraenkel 1994: 88 purposive sampling is a sample selection in which the researchers use judgment that they
believed will provide the data needed. Thus, the researcher believed that the students’ of Sekolah Alam Nurul Islamare able to provide data of students’
perception on the English teaching learning activity. Besides the belief that the participant would give the meaningful data, those participants of the school are
easy to cooperate. The data from these participants is considered able to complete the data needed. The participants of the study are all students in the classroom
during the teaching and learning activities.
D. Research Instruments
In this research, the researcher explored the students’ perception on the English teaching learning activity in Sekolah Alam Nurul IslamYogyakarta. The
researcher applied three types of instruments to gather the data from the participants. They are observation, interview and questionnaires. The
questionnaire and individual interview are the most common instrument for data collection in survey research Ary et al. 2002: 406.
a. Observation This observation is made to get a comprehensive picture of a situation. The
researcher used checklist to record the data collected during the observation. Ary, et al 2002:234 stated that a checklist as a simplest device which presents a list of
behavior that are to be observed. The researcher constructed 17 statements; 10 statements for teacher and 7 statements for the students, in this observation by
considering the theory of students’ perception on teaching learning English activities. The researcher observed the teacher’s and students’ activities during the
teaching learning process in the class by making a check sign √ in the observation sheets. Through this instrument, the researcher was able to record
many things related to all of the aspects to be observed. Then, the result of the observation was used to compile the statements in the questionnaire.
Table 3.1. Sample of the Observation Sheet Observation Sheet
Date: Statements
yes no
Notes
1. The students are ready in teaching learning process
b. Questionnaire In order to investigate the students’ perception on the English teaching
learning activity in SekolahAlam, the researcher administrated the questionnaires to the research participants. According to Ary et al. 1979:175, there are two
types of questionnaire. They are structured, or closed type and unstructured or open type. The questionnaire in this research was combination between open and
closed type. The open type items were used to get information from the students because they are asked to answer some questions freely in their own ideas. Then,
for the closed type items were used to enable the participants to put check √ in the provided space according to their opinions.
The questionnaire used in this study consisted of 20 closed types, and 3 open types. The questionnaire employed in this research is Likert Scale. According to
Ary et al. 1979:235 Likert Scale is a scale that is constructed by assembling a number of statements about an object, a half of which express a clearly favorable
attitude and half of which are clearly unfavorable attitude. A set of related responses, one for each point, is provided. The responses were valued from
strongly disagree, disagree, agree, and strongly agree. The rank is one to four.
Table 3.3. Questionnaire Blueprint Question
Indicator
No. 1-4 Students’ perception on the importance of learning
English and their reasons to learn in the school No. 5-7
Students’ perception on their preparation activities No.8-17
students perception during the class No.18-20
evaluation from the students on the teaching- learning activities
c. Interview The third instrument used in this study was interview. This instrument is used
to obtain data to answer the first problem in the problem formulation that is how teacher is implementingthe English teaching learning activity in Sekolah Alam
Nurul Islam Yogyakarta. The strategy used in conducting interview is interview
guide approach, in which topic and issue to discuss were specifically outlined. The interviewer decided the sequence and wording of the questions. By using this
strategy, the comprehensiveness of the data is improved and the data can be specifically collected.
The interview will be conducted before and after the participants filled the questionnaire. The participants of the interview are the teacher of English and the
students of the first grade of Sekolah Alam Nurul IslamYogyakarta.
E. Data Gathering
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