c. Sequence of past tense material processes in quick succession chased,
caught up, threw, missed, managed to escape, run d.
Mental process think Relational process to evaluate was
Expressions of attitude victor, worth it
2.6 School and Class Profile
SMP Roudlotus Saidiyah is an Islamic private school. The founder of that school was Kya Haji Muhammad Said al Masyhad. It was built for about 8 years
ago. It is located in Jalan Kalialang Baru Kelurahan Sukorejo Kecamatan Gunung Pati Semarang. As many other Islamic boarding schools, it has a boarding house
where students may choose to stay in its boarding house or not, because there are students come from another city. The students who want to stay will get the
facilities by the school. But they have to obey the rules. As another Islamic school, SMP Roudlotus Saidiyah applies some rules. The students start the lesson
at 7 a.m. Before that, they must read Al-Quran and listen to the recitation of the Al-Quran by their Kyai. There are so many activities that have to participate by
the students. The update news about SMP Roudlotus Saidiyah can be followed on www.ponpesrosa.sch.id.
More specifically in the English teaching and learning process, the year eighth students are separated into two classes, vis-a-vis female and male classes.
There are 19 girls in female class, and 18 boys in male class. The female and male
class is executed every Tuesday and Wednesday. However, both classes are handled by the same English teacher and having the same time allocation.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
To pursue the objectives of this study, the following research methodology is partitioned into five sections; i.e. research design, subject of the study, role of the
researcher, procedure of collecting the data, and data analysis.
3.1 Research Design
This is a descriptive qualitative study Miles and Huberman, 1994. In a classroom setting, a piece of descriptive research is carried out by a teacher with
or without the involvement of other investigator in the classroom aimed at „increasing the understanding rather than changing the phenomenon under
investigation‟ Nunan, 1992: 18. This means that this study wants to describe the process of teaching and learning process of writing narrative text to the year
eighth students of SMP Roudlotus Saidiyah Semarang Academic Year 20102011. More specifically, the description part would be central in the data analysis phase.
3.2 The Subject of the Study 3.2.1 Population
Sugiyono 2007: 61 stated that population is generalization area that consists of: objectsubject that has certain quality and characteristic that researcher
chooses to be learned and then the researcher could arrive at conclusion. In
