3.2 Area Determination Method
Area determination method is a way to determine the area or the place where the research is conducted. This research was conducted at SMPN 7 Jember. This area
was chosen purposively with the consideration that this school could provide the data that was relevant to this research. It was suggested by Arikunto, 2010 that purposive
method is used to choose a research area based on the certain purposes or conditions. In addition, this area was chosen based on academic and technical reasons.
The academic reasons were the English teacher has taught reading recount text to the students and the research dealing with using snowball throwing technique to teach
reading comprehension was not conducted at this school, these resons were known from the interview with the English teacher. While, the technical reasons of this
research was that the researcher has done the teaching practice program in SMPN 7 Jember and the headmaster had already given permission to the researcher to conduct
the research at the school.
3.3 Subject Determination Method
Research subject is the people with the means to take systematic action in an effort to resolve specific problems Fraenkel and Wallen, 2009; 591. The subjects of
this research were the eighth grade students of SMPN 7 Jember in the 2015-2016 academic year. This subject was
chosen as the consideration of the students’ reading problem that the researcher found. The school has 8 classes of eighth grade students.
Each class consists of 44 students but VIII G only consists of 43 students. The researcher chose VIII G class in that school because that class had the lowest score. It
wa s known from the students’ mean score of English test that was 57.3. This mean
score was taken from the data of reading comprehension test given by English teacher. Furthermore, no student got the English minimum requirement standard
score of 75.
3.4 Data Collection Method
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