3. Participants in field testing
The field testing as conducted in Bethesda Nursing Academy. The participants were forty students of Bethesda Nursing Academy. Field testing is the
means to find out how of the designed materials affect the students’ motivation to speak English.
C. Research Instruments
1. Instruments for Research and Information Collection
Ary 1979: 175 said that there were two types of questionnaire; close form and open form. In the close questionnaires, the questions had been
structurally ordered with options which should be chosen by the respondents. While in the open questionnaire, the respondents are free to answer the questions
by using their own words. The instruments which are used to fulfil the first step of R D cycle was
questionnaire
. The questionnaires were given to forty students of Bethesda Nursing Academy. In this study, the writer distributed close questionnaires. The
questionnaire was given to the students. It was used to get the data of the respondents’ needs.
2. Instrument for Preliminary Field Testing
For the preliminary field testing, questionnaires were still used. In order to obtain suggestion and feedbacks on the designed materials, the writer distributed
questionnaires to one English instructor of Bethesda Nursing Academy and one
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Lecturer in English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University. In the questionnaires, the writer provided statements related to the
investigated aspects. Likert scale was used in the questionnaires, through which the writer would be able to know the respondents’ degree of agreement towards
the provided statements.
3. Instrument for Field Testing
The purpose of field testing was to find out whether the designed materials met the objectives and to collect the data to improve the designed materials. The
writer still used questionnaire. Distributing questionnaires allowed the writer to
have more data and accurate results, since there were many respondents involved. The questionnaires were given to forty students of Bethesda Nursing Academy. In
the questionnaires, the students were expected to answer some questions related to the designed materials after field testing had been conducted.
Based on the explanation of the research instruments above, the writer presented the data collection in table 3.2
Research Question
Data Needed Respondent
Instrument
Research Question 1
Learners’ Characteristics, learners’ difficulties, favourable learning
activities, existing materials, available facilities
English instructor and students of
Bethesda Nursing
Academy Questionnaire
Research Question 1
Weaknesses and strengths of the deisgned material
Lecturer from the English Education
Study Program and English Instructor
of Bethesda Nursing Academy
Questionnaire
Research Question 2
Learners’ enthusiasm, motivation, and participation.
Bethesda Nursing
Academy students Questionnaire
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D. Data Gathering Technique