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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter presents place and time of the research, method of the research, population and sampling, research instrument, technique of data collecting, and
technique of data analysis.
A. The Time and Place of the Research
The place of this research was conducted at Department of English Education, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teachers
’ Training; „Syarif Hidayatullah’ State Islamic University located at Jl. Ir H. Juanda no 54. Post Code 15412
Ciputat, South Tangerang, Banten. The time of this research was started on May 02
nd
2013 until May 06
th
2013.
B. Method of the Research
The method used in this study is a quantitative research, because the writer tried to describe and to test the relationship, it also presented the findings in a
numerical form, and analyze through the use of statistics. “Quantitative research is an objective and systematic processes in which numerical data are used and
interpreted to obtain information about the world.”
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The research design used by the writer is correlational study; it is an experimental study which will test the
relationship between two variables. In quantitative research, the writer builds hypothesis to be proved.
The writer analyzed the research by using Pearson Correlation Product Moment to know the result. For completing the data, the writer used two kinds of
research; library research and field research. In library research, the writer observed and read some books in some libraries to support this paper. In field
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Ronald E. Walpole, Qualitative and Quantitative Research for Education 5th Edition An Introduction to Theories and Methods, Boston: Pearson Education, Inc., 2006, p. 274.
research, the writer collects the students’ motivation in reading through questionnaires and their reading speed score.
The research is about the correlation between students’ motivation in reading and their reading speed.
C. The Population and Sampling
The population of the research consists of three classes from second semester of English Education Students of Tarbiyah and Teachers Training, UIN Syarif
Hidayatullah, Jakarta. The writer used cluster random sampling and chosen 1 class to be the sample
of taken data. The class consists of 30 students.
D. The Technique of Data Collecting
In collecting the data, the writer uses some instruments: a. Questionnaire
The research instrument which is used in collecting the data is a reading motivation questionnaire. The questionnaires based on indicators of
motivation in reading and they consist of 32 items, and the item has four options on a scale from 1 to 4, with 1 very different from me, 2 a little
different from me, 3 a little like me, 4 a lot like me. Before the students fill the questionnaires, the writer gives the explanation and direction about
what the students should do with the questionnaires. b. Test
The test that used by the writer consists of two main tests. The first is t
esting students’ reading speed. In this test students will be asked to do the rapid reading and find out their Word Per Minute Rate. The second is testing
s tudents’ comprehension. The reading comprehension test will be done after
the students finish doing the speed reading, and they will be ask to answer the reading comprehension test related to the text they have read before. Both
reading speed score and comprehension score will be integrated and the final score would be the effective reading rate.
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