Beside that, English teens magazine contains pictures, graphics, or subheadings. The content of English teens magazine usually are news, sport,
fashion, tips, true experiences of someone, and may include posters, stickers, small samples of cosmetics or other products. The English teens magazine is
suitable as a reading material in adolescent students ’. The adolescent students’
prefer reading to other sources of information or entertainment because they feel reading provides great depth understanding, more details, more insights on
character, and an understanding of interpersonal relationship. Based on the explanation above, the writer thought that using English
Teens Magazine as an alternative reading media will be effective towards students’ reading interest.
F. Research Hypothesis
The hypotheses of the study can be formulated as follows: Ha
: There is a significant difference between students’ interest in
reading by using English teens magazine and without English teens magazine.
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
A. Place and Time of Study
The research was held at SMA N 4 Depok. It located at Jeruk Raya Street Number 1 Sukatani Permai Village, Tapos, Depok. The writer conducted the
research about one month. The research was held in October to November 2013 at the first semester of the year of study 20132014. The timeline of this study was:
Table 3.1 The Timeline of Research
No Date
Time Activity
1. November 22
nd
2012 10.00
– 12.00 The observation at the first grade of SMA N 4 Depok
2. October 28
th
2013 09.00
– 11.00 Asking permission to the headmaster of SMA N 4 Depok
3. November 7
th
2013 10.00
– 11.30 Conducting some questionnaire and pre-test at X IPA 1
4. November 8
th
2013 10.00
– 11.30 Conducting some questionnaire and pre-test at X IPA 2
5. November 11
th
, 2103 07.00
– 08.30 1
st
meeting at X IPA 2 6.
November 13
th
, 2013 08.30
– 10.00 1
st
meeting at X IPA 1 7.
November 14
th
, 2013 08.30
– 10.00 2
nd
meeting at X IPA 2 8.
November 15
th
, 2013 07.00
– 08.30 2
nd
meeting at X IPA 1 9.
November 18
th
, 2013 07.00
– 08.30 3
rd
meeting at X IPA 2 10.
November 20
th
, 2013 08.30
– 10.00 3
rd
meeting at X IPA 1 11.
November 21
st
, 2013 08.30
– 10.00 4
th
meeting X IPA 2 12.
November 22
nd
, 2013 07.00 – 08.30 4
th
meeting X IPA 1 13.
November 28
th
, 2013 08.30
– 10.00 Conducting some questionnaire and post-test at X IPA 2
14. November 29
th
, 2013 07.00
– 08.30 Conducting some questionnaire and post-test at X IPA 1
