34 one class VIII Happiness in this study. There were twenty eight students in this
class in the academic year 20142015. ELESP students were also the participants in this study. They were from class C batch 2013 class Critical Reading and
Writing CRW II. The researcher chose students of CRW II because they have been majoring English Language Education Study Program ELESP for two
years. It means that they are considered as more capable students as they are the ones who scaffold the SMP J
oannes Bosco students’ writings. There were fourteen students who were at the same level of writing skill. The ELESP
students’ A score on CRW I were the base to choose the fourteen students. Since there were fourteen ELESP students, one student of ELESP got two writings of
class VIII Happiness to be checked. The ELESP students checked the errors in the use of verbs including linking verbs.
D. Instrument and Data Gathering Technique
The researcher used field notes and teacher interview to answer the first research problem. Then, questionnaire, students
’ interview, and students’ writings were used as the instrument to gather the data for answering the second research
problem. 1.
Field notes The researcher took some notes when the researcher interviewed the
English teacher. The researcher wrote some keywords to what the English teacher said.
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Questionnaires In this research, the questionnaire was designed in Bahasa Indonesia so
that the students could understand the statement better. The researcher used Likert scale consisted of four scale of measurement in the questionnaires. They were
sangat tidak setuju strongly disagree, tidak setuju disagree, setuju agree, and
sangat setuju strongly agree. For the close-ended questions, the students
answered them by putting a tick on the column of the measurements. Then, for the open-ended questions, the students answered them by writing short answers.
The questionnaires were distributed to the students so that the researcher got the information that the researcher needed. A questionnaire is a quick and
simple way to obtain rich information about aspects of the classroom and the teaching method Hopkins, 2008. Therefore, the researcher used the
questionnaires to collect the information. Table 3.1 presents the organization of questionnaire that the researcher used.
Table 3.1 Blank Form of the Questionnaire
NO STATEMENT
PERNYATAAN SD
STS D
TS A
S SA
SS SD STS
= Strongly Disagree Sangat Tidak Setuju D TS
= Disagree Tidak Setuju A S
= Agree Setuju SA SS
= Strongly Agree Sangat Setuju
3. Interview
The researcher also interviewed two students whose answers were unclear to get additional information. According to Gall, Gall, and Borg 2007, interview
involves asking a series of structured questions and then probing more deeply with open-form questions to obtain additional information. The researcher got the
