Profile of the Speaking Class Method of the Research

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD

A. Profile of the Speaking Class

The research was conducted at the second grade students of Nursing Department STIKES Bakti Tunas Husada in the academic year of 20112012 which is located at Jl. Cilolohan No. 36 Tasikmalaya – West Java. It is one of the popular colleges in Tasikmalaya. The college has three departments; there are Nursing , Analyst, and Pharmacy Departments. For Nursing Department divided into three classes A, B and C, and consist of 139 students.The college also provides some rooms for students teaching learning proccess such as hall for students’ gathering and meeting, library, many laboratory rooms for their practice related to their study and one mini hospital. The college was chosen as the setting of the research because the researcher also teach in this college. The research was conducted from January 2012 to June 2012. The following is the schedule for conducting experimental research. It can be seen in table 3.1. Table 3.1Time schedule of the Research No . ACTIVITIES January-June 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 Pre observation 2 Designing Research Proposal 3 Conducting proposal seminar 4 Developing research instrument 5 Trying out instrument 6 Experiment and analyzing the data 7 Writing the report 8 Submitting the document 61 perpustakaan.uns.ac.id commit to user

B. Method of the Research

The research is categorized as an experimental study since it attempts to provide treatment to experimental group a maintain control over all factors that may affect the result of experiment. In other words, Experimental research involves a study of the effect of the systematic manipulation of one variables on another variable. The manipulated variable is called the experimental treatment or the independent variable. The observed and measured variable is called the dependent variable. Ary et.al, 2010: 26. Considering the explanation above, the researcher uses experimental study because the aim of this study is revealing the effect of teaching techniques and students’ self-confident toward the students’ speaking skill. It involves two variables, dependent variable speaking and independent variables community language learning, situational language teaching and self-confidence.

C. Population, Sample and Sampling Technique 1.