which concerned in the research of simple present tense. The difference of this research and those previous researches are; the research design, the concern of
material and the place where the research will be conducted. This study is a quasi- experimental study with the concern of the simple past tense. The study will take
place in SMP Trimulia Jakarta.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Place and Time of the Research
The research took place in SMP Trimulia Jakarta Selatan. This school is located on Jalan H. Adam Malik, No. 1, Petukangan Selatan
– Pesanggrahan, Jakarta Selatan. The research was conducted on January 20
th
up to February 7
th
2014.
B. Research Method and Design
This research was a kind of quantitative research. There are numbers of research design in quantitative research. Yet, this research used a quasi-
experimental research. Quasi-experiment is a research which involves groups in the research, experiment and control group, but not based on the randomly
formed. The design of the research was illustrated as follows:
Pre-test Treatment
Post-test Experiment Class
√ √
√
Control Class
√ X
√
C. Population and Sample
The population of the study was the students of the eighth grade of SMP Trimulia Jakarta. The eighth grade students are divided into five classes with the
population about 206 students, distributed from VIII.A up to VIII.E. Since the population was considered too large to be used for the
researcher, the purposive sampling technique was used to decide the sample of the research. So the writer took two classes as a sample. First, was the class VIII.B
consists of 41 students as a control class and second was the VIII.B consists of 42 students as an experimental class. But there were some students who did not come
to the pretest and posttest session and absent for 2 times treatment, the researcher decided only took 32 students as the sample from each class. So, there were about
64 students as a sample for this research .
