c. Whether or not the topic is appropriate for 2006 Curriculum for Senior High School.
d. Whether or not the designed materials are appropriate for 2006Curriculum for Senior High School.
e. Whether or not the instruction is clear. f. Whether or not the exercises enhance the students to comprehend the
materials well. g. Whether or not the topics chosen are interesting for the Senior High
School students. h. Whether or not the designed materials are appropriate to attain the
indicators. The questionnaire is also open for suggestions and comments in order to improve
designed materials.
5. Main Product Revision
After gathering information from the product evaluation participants, the researcher improved the preliminary form of product according to the comments
and suggestions given by the participants.
B. Setting
There were two places as the settings of the study; they were in SMA N 1 Depok, Sleman Yogyakarta for the research information collection and the second
setting was in Sanata Dharma University, especially the English Education Study Program. This was to meet the product evaluation information. The research was
conducted in April and May 2007. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
C. Participants
In accordance with the setting of the research and the steps in doing R and D methods, there were two kinds of research participants; they were participants of
research and information collecting and participants of product evaluation.
1. Participants of Research and Information Collecting
The participants for research and information collecting were the students of SMA N 1, Depok Sleman Yogyakarta who were in class XI. In selecting
participants, the researcher chose a classroom using cluster sampling to provide information needed in order to collect data about lacks, necessities, and wants in
the relation to learning listening.
2. Participants of Product Evaluation
The researcher chose two lecturers at the English Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University and three English teacher of SMA N 1 Depok
Sleman as the participants for product evaluation. As stated in the previous sub chapter, the reason to choose those participants was that they are competent in
education especially in English Education. The information from the participants allowed the researcher to gain rich information to improve the
designed materials.
D. Instruments
In order to gain data from the research participants, the researcher employed a questionnaire as the instruments for research and information collecting
and product evaluation. Questionnaires were administered personally to groups of individuals have a number of advantages Best and Kahn, 1986.
To gather data from the research and information collecting, the researcher distributed a questionnaire in SMA N 1 Depok Sleman Yogyakarta, particularly to
the students of class XI. The aim of distributing such an instrument was to gain information about students’ intention in learning listening. This included topic,
learning activity and strategy needed by the students. The results of the questionnaire would be the bases of needs analysis in determining students’
necessities, lacks and wants. In order to collect data from the product evaluation participants, the
researcher provided a questionnaire for the participants about the syllabus, and designed material. The step was to gain improvement and revision from the
participants.
E. Data Gathering Technique
In this sub chapter, the researcher discusses the data gathering in the research. As stated before, the researcher employed a questionnaire as the
instrument for collecting data for two major participants of 1 research and information collecting data, and 2 product evaluation. The results from the data
gathered were the bases for the materials development. Research and information collecting result was for elaborating appropriate materials and topic for the
students, while product evaluation was intended to be the base for main product revision.
1. Research and Information Collecting
To gather data from the first participant, the researcher came up with some questions in the questionnaires; the form of questionnaires was open questionnaire,
