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Questions Number Description
11 to 15 These five questions gathered information about the
students’ perception on the effect of using songs in listening class.
B. Open-ended Questions 1 to 3
These three questions gathered further information about the students’ perception on the effect of using
songs in listening class.
4 to 5 These two questions gathered information about the
advantages and disadvantages of using songs in listening class.
3. Interview
The third instrument was interview. Mc Donough 1997: 434 writes, “An interview has the advantage of supplying large volumes of in-depth data and
provide insight on participants’ perspectives.” It can be seen that interview enabled the participants to express or to give interpretation of the surrounding
situation from their point of view. The interview was conducted to the participants in order to strengthen the
data and to obtain some information about their answer in questionnaire part. Through interview, the researcher could gain deeper information from the
students. Furthermore, it collected information about both; the students’ perception and advantages and disadvantages of using songs in listening class.
This research used personal interview. In other words, the researcher conducted a face-to-face interview with the participant. The questions for the interview were
already prepared before the interview and the questions were in Indonesian in order to make the students understand and answer the questions easily.
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Table 3.2 Interview Blueprint
Questions Number Description
1 to 5 These five questions gathered information about the
students’ perception on their motivation in learning English using songs.
6 to 9 These four questions gathered information about the
students’ perception on the use of songs in listening activity.
10 to 13 These four questions gathered information about the
students’ perception on the implication of songs in listening class and the advantages and disadvantages
they get from it.
As mentioned before, this research used three instruments to gather the data. This part explained how the instruments worked and also how the data were
gathered. There were three steps in gathering the data. The first step, the researcher gathered the data from the students through
observation form. The researcher observed the students’ attitude before listening, during listening and after listening activity. In observing the students, the
researcher did not interact with them so they could behave naturally and it helped the researcher to get the actual data.
In the second step, after the listening class ended, the researcher distributed questionnaires to two classes; class VIII A and class VIII B. The questionnaire
was used to obtain information about the students’ perception and motivation on the use of songs in listening class. It was also used to determine the nine students
who would be interviewed. In distributing questionnaire, the researcher also explained the purpose of the questionnaire so the participants would be
