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ended question asks the participants to formulate their own question. Closed- ended question asks the participants to pick an answer from the given number of
options. The researcher used both open-ended questions and closed-ended questions. The researcher provided some open-ended questions, some closed-
ended questions, and the mixing of open-ended and closed-ended questions. In the mixing questions, the researcher provided the options and the spaces to be filled
by the participants. The questionnaire was distributed to the students of the fourth semester
students of Sanata Dharma University. After the students answered the questions, the researcher collected the questionnaire. The questionnaire was aimed to
strengthen the research findings about the students’ perception on Cooperative Learning in Extensive Reading II class
D. Data Gathering Technique
The researcher used triangulation technique in gathering the data. Triangulation means “the researcher investigated the data with one procedure and
then confirmed the collected data using another different procedure or instrument” Ary et al., 2002: 436. Hancock and Algozzine in Doing Case Study Research
explained further about the positive point of triangulation. They stated that “the research findings based on evidence attained from multiple sources – observation,
interview, and questionnaire – are more convincing than those based on evidence from only one or two of these information sources” Hancock et al., 2006: 86.
The techniques used in gathering research data were interviewing lecturer and
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students of Extensive Reading II, observing class activities, and distributing a questionnaire to Extensive Reading II students.
The first technique in gathering the data was interview. The interviews were conducted twice. The first was interviewing Extensive Reading II lecturer.
Interviewing Extensive Reading II lecturer was aimed at obtaining the data of the implementation of Cooperative Learning used in Extensive Reading II. The
second interview was interviewing students of Extensive Reading II. The purpose of the second interview was to clarify the data obtained from the questionnaires
that examines the students’ perception on Cooperative Learning used in Extensive Reading II.
The second technique was observing class activities. The observation was aimed at confirming the data from interview the lecturer. In this research, non-
participant observation was conducted. Through non-participant observation, “the researcher could be more objective in taking the data” Ary et al., 2002: 431.
The last technique in gathering the data was distributing the questionnaire. The questionnaires were distributed on the last meeting of the course with the
expectation that the students had been already involved in the class activities and
had clear description of the Cooperative Learning implemented.
E. Data Analysis Technique
