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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD

A. Type of the Research

This research is an action research study which aimed to identify a „problematic‟ situation or issue and deliberate way in that situation in order to bring about changes and improvements in practice Burns, 2010: 2. It is not merely about why we do such a thing in particular, but it is rather to find a solution on how we could do things better. Burns 2009: 9 proposes Kemmis McTaggart 1988 chart representing the action research cycle as follows. Figure 1: Cyclical AR Model Proposed by Kemmis and McTaggrat Ways on doing action research in the teaching and learning process was begun from determining some plans on the actions that would be performed later. After that, the actions were implemented along with the role of the collaborator to observe the situation during the teaching and learning process. The last was making reflection in which the researcher and the 44 collaborator discussed and conducted evaluation together based on the teaching performance. Later, according to the results of the evaluation, it could be decided whether they needed to move to the next cycle or not. According to Burns 2009: 8, the action research model represented by Kemmis McTaggart has been criticised by some authors because it is too fixed and rigid. On the other hand, it is considered as the best known model and appears in many writings which are pertinent to action research. Despite all the criticisms, this model is very useful and easy to understand since it is able to summarize the important parts of the action research process. Regarding its use, this model is chosen to represent the action research process.

B. Research Setting

1. Place The research was carried out in SMA N 5 Magelang which is located at Barito II Street, Sidotopo, Kedungsari, Magelang Utara, Kota Magelang. The school has adequate facilities including students‟ classrooms, laboratories such as computer, language, and science labs, offices for principal, teachers, administrators staff, a guest room, a consoling room, a dormitory, a security office and a mosque. The school also has some fields for regular ceremony, soccer, volley, basket, tennis and parking areas for both the teachers and the students. Most of the classrooms have one LCD projector. The school consists of grades X, XI, and XII. For grade X, the classes are classified into 45 regular and sport classes. For grade XI, the majors are sport, science IPA and social IPS programs. For grade XII, the majors are only science and social, and those who were in sport class before will be automatically turned into social program. Each class accomodates 32 students in average. 2. Time The research was done in the first semester of the academic year 20152016. It formally began on July 2015. The research was conducted by following the school‟s calendar, the classroom teacher‟s schedule and also the syllabus of the English lesson taught in class X-C SMA N 5 Magelang. 3. Participants The main subjects of the research were the students of class X-C at SMA N 5 Magelang in the academic year of 20152016. As the collaborator, the English teacher helped and observed the classroom situation during the teaching and learning process of English. In addition, the reflections are also done by the research team after each meeting to evaluate the teaching learning process conducted on that day including the progress and obstacles made by the students in order to achieve the better performance in the teaching and learning process.

C. Data Collection