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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

This chapter gives further information on how the study was conducted. It gives information on how the data were gathered and analyzed to answer the problems. This chapter consists of research method, research participants, instruments used in the research, data gathering technique, data analysis technique, and the research procedures.

A. Research Method

In order to answer the problem stated in problem formulation, the writer employed survey study. It is a study that permits the researcher to summarize or measure the characteristics, attitudes, and opinions of several different groups toward some issues Ary, Jacob, and Razavieh, 2002. Survey study, which focuses on groups’ attitudes, opinions, and characteristics, often takes the form of a questionnaire. The advantage of using survey research is that substantial amounts of information can be collected in a relatively short time. Besides, survey studies seek information to be used for problem solving rather than for hypothesis testing. Thus In this study the survey study intended to find out the students’ perceptions of implementation of mind mapping technique in narrative reading. The questionnaire was employed in order to obtain students’ perception.

B. Research Participants

The population of the eleventh grade students of senior high school in Bantul is so large that the researcher could not list all its members. Since it is not possible to list all the members of the eleventh grade students of senior high school, the researcher used cluster sampling in conducting research on the importance of examining students’ perceptions toward the implementation of mind mapping technique. According to Cohen, Marion and Marrison 2000: 100, cluster sampling involves randomly selecting the sample from a list of population. Furthermore, cluster sampling is the probability sampling in which the unit chosen is not an individual but a group of individual that are naturally together Ary, Jacob, and Razavieh, 2002: 226. The researcher, then, chose SMA Pangudi Luhur Sedayu and several students of class XI IPS 2. The number of students in class XI IPS 2 was thirty seven students and consists of nineteen males and twenty two females. However, the researcher only chose fourteen students as the participants for the reason that they were always present in the class and accomplished the pre-test and post-test. Besides, the students chosen were considered weak in English. It is assumed that if the weak students were able to make an improvement, the rest of the students were going to do as well. The research spent five meetings to implement the mind mapping technique. It conducted in the middle of the even semester of academic year 20082009. Since there was only one meeting for each week, the researcher spent five weeks beginning from February 16 th , 2008 to March 23 nd , 2008.

C. Research Instruments