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Dealing with this study, the writer used official‘s documents of the
school. The sources of data taken in document were the syllabus as the followed guides, the lesson plan of English Subject matter, education calendar and the
textbook used as the teaching material etc.
D. The Technique of Collecting Data
To get the data, the researcher used three techniques of collecting data. They were observation, interview and document analysis.
1. Observation
Observation is the observing and taking notes systematically based on certain phenomena Sutrisno Hadi, 1984: 136. Observation is one of the
instrument s used in collecting the data. The researcher observed the student‘s
activities while teaching and learning process occurred. The result of the observation was recorded on his observation sheets as the data. Two parts of
fieldnotes observation are descriptive and reflective. Descriptive is a part of fieldnotes consisting of the explanation related to the natural phenomena caught in
setting, which is about activity, persons, and documents. While in reflective, it contains the researcher‘s understanding, analysis, evaluations, interpretation and
speculation, related to the descriptive. This part is just subjective because it is made based on the researcher‘s interpretations.
In collecting the data, the writer spelt out the data into field notes. The observation was focused on the implementation of KTSP Curriculum in the
second grade of SMP N 1 Wedarijakasa Pati. It could be seen at teaching learning
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process during the instruction. It was made through the observation of VIII C, VIII D and VIII E class while teaching learning activity occurred.
2. Interview
Lexy J Moleong quoted that interview is a conversation with their certain purposes, which is done by the side as the interviewer and interviewer
2002: p.135. In line with this definition, Massom and Bramble in Research in Education and the Behavioral Science, interview defines as a verbal discussion
conducted by one person with another for obtaining the information 1997: p. 314
Transcript is also the major sources in collecting data. It is derived from the interview taken by the researcher. The data taken was written in the form
of transcript as similar as the fieldnotes. It consists of the identity of the interviewer and the interviewee, the setting of the interview consisting of the time,
place and activity happened. In this study, the writer took some interviews from two English
teachers of SMP N 1 Wedarijaksa Pati, a vice principal of N 1 Wedarijaksa Pati, and some second grade students.
3. Documents analysis
