the designed materials. This questionnaire was given to an English teacher of SMP Negeri 11 Yogyakarta and two English lecturers of the English Education Study
Program of Sanata Dharma University.
2. Interview Guide
Interview is aimed to find out what is in someone’s mind and how does someone feel about something. Personal interview was used in this research
because it was conducted face to face, interpersonally between the interviewer and the interviewee to obtain the information needed. In this context, the interview
was conducted between the writer and the English teacher of SMP 11 Negeri Yogyakarta. The content of the questions in the interview was about the students’
mastery in English especially listening skill, and also the learning process in class. This interview was aimed to clarify four important questions to design the
material. They were the students’ interests in learning English, the students’ mastery in listening skill, the implementation of School-Based Curriculum for the
ninth grade students in SMP Negeri 11 Yogyakarta, and the appropriateness of listening material for the ninth grade students of junior high school.
D. Data Gathering Technique
The data gathering technique employed in this study was the questionnaire and the interview. As part of the Research and Information Collecting, the writer
conducted an interview with the English teacher of SMP Negeri 11 Yogyakarta to gather the data about learning characteristics and the classroom condition of the
ninth grade classes. Meanwhile, the questionnaire was distributed directly to the
participants. The first questionnaire was for the Research and Information Collecting. It was distributed to the ninth grade students of SMP Negeri 11
Yogyakarta. The second questionnaire was used for the Preliminary Field Testing on the designed materials. It was distributed to the English teacher of SMP Negeri
11 Yogyakarta and two English lecturers of the English Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University.
E. Data Analysis Technique
Data analysis is a process to organize and to sequence the data into categories in a certain way to find the theme Moleong, 1988: 88. In this study,
the writer elaborated the process of analyzing the data. The data were obtained from the questionnaire and the interview. The data was presented in the form of
numerical data and narrative description. The results of the questionnaire and the interview became the basis for designing the materials.
The researcher obtained the descriptive data by analyzing the data from the questionnaire. The questionnaire was divided into two. The first questionnaire was
for Research and Information Collecting. It was distributed to the forty students of the ninth grade students of SMP Negeri 11 Yogyakarta. The data presented the
participants’ statements about listening activities in class. The second questionnaire was used for Preliminary Field Testing. It was distributed to the
English teacher of SMP Negeri 11 Yogyakarta and the English lecturers of the English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University. The
writer obtained the data to make improvement and revisions of the designed materials.
Since this study was to know the tendency of the respondents’ opinions, the writer processed the data in order to find the theme. The writer used central
tendency since it represented the whole measurements. There were five points of agreements for the participants’ statements:
1 : strongly disagree with the statement
2 : disagree with the statement
3 :
doubt 4
: agree with the statement 5
: strongly agree with the statement According to Gay 1992: 390, the measurements of central tendency give
a way of describing a set of data. In this study, the central tendency was measured using mean. Mean is the sum of all values in a distribution divided by the number
of values. The mean was obtained through this following formula:
N X
X
∑
= Where:
X = Mean
∑
X
= Sum of scores in a distribution N
= Number of respondents
Then, the table of central tendency is presented in Table 3.1.
Table 3.1 The Format of the Presentation of Students’ Opinion about Listening Class No Respondents’
opinion on
N Central Tendency
Mn
Note: N : Number of respondents
Mn : Mean indicators of central tendency of the sources set
F. Research Procedures
