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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
This chapter describes the research setting, research subject, research method, research procedure, data and data collecting techniques, data validation
and data analysis techniques.
A. Context of the Research
1. The Setting and the Time of the Research
The place of this classroom action research is SMA Negeri 6 Surakarta. It is located on Jl. Mr. Sartono No. 30, Surakarta, Central Java. A number of students
in SMA Negeri 6 Surakarta is 1950. More over, it is equipped with two kinds of facilities: laboratory and courts. First, laboratory in SMA Negeri 6 Surkarta
consists of 6 fields. They are language, chemistry, Physics, Biology, IPS and Computer laboratory. Second, SMA Negeri 6 Surkarta has three kinds of courts:
Tennis, Basket and football. In addotion, it provides many kinds of students’ activity or Extra Curricular: Volly ball, Basket, Cheer leader dance, Takwendo,
Karate, Pencak Silat, PKS Patroli Keamanan Sekolah, Pramuka, PMR, Teater, Pencinta Alam, KIR, Rohis and English Conversation Club.
This classroom action research was carried out in eight months started in September 2009 up to July 2010, preliminary research was done in September,
designing research proposal was done in October up to February2009, conducting proposal seminar in March 2010, making research instruments in April 2010,
giving treatment and collecting the data in May 2010, analyzing the collected data
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and discussing the data analysis in June 2010 and the writing research report in June 2010.
Table 3.1 Research Schedule
Month Activities
September 2009 October – February 20092010
March 2010 April 2010
May 2010 June 2010
· Preliminary Research
· Designing Research Proposal
· Conducting Proposal
· Making Research Instruments
· Treatment, Collecting Data
· Analyzing
Data, Writing
Report
B. Research Subject
The subject of this classroom action research is second grade of SMA Negeri 6 Surakarta in the academic year of 2009-2010. In this class, there are 30 students.
In general 2 Bahasa 1 has low English skill, especially reading skill. Besides, based on the result of pre test, the students’ score in reading comprehension is
unsatisfying. Why wasthe students’ score in reading comprehension unsatisfying? Because they had some difficulties in reading comprehension such as students had
difficult to identify explicit information in a text; students had difficulty to comprehend he text; students were unable to find main idea in a paragraph;
students had difficulty to infer the meaning of the text. Furthermore, based on my observation, some students often came late, they came to reading class reluctantly,
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they chatted in the class, and they had no response when they were asked questions. Therefore, in this classroom action research, the researcher uses
graphic organizers to solve the students’ problem in comprehending the text and their motivation in reading. By using Graphic Organizers, hopefully, it can
increase their motivation and as a result their reading comprehension improves as well.
C. Research Method
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