D. The Population and Sample of the Research
The writer determined the subject of this research contains of population, sample, and technique in sampling. The population of this study wassecond grade
students of SMP DwiPutra Ciputat academic year: 20132014. Based on Creswell description, “quasi-experiment is selected class.”
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The researcher could select the class for control group and experimental group. In this research, the writer usedthe
purposive sample. Based on Arikunto description, the purposive sample is the sample which
has done with taking the subject is not based on strata, random or the area but, it is based on the purposeit self.
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Here, the writer selected two classes for the sample, VIII-A was the control class which consists of 30 students and VIII-B was the
experiment class which consists of 30 students. Here, the reserachers chose A class as a control class and B class as an experiment class
based on students’ score. The researcher
chose A class as a control class because the students’ score in A class was higher than B class. Thus, the researcher specified that B class as an experimental
class, because the students’ score of B class was smaller than A class.
E. The Instrumentof the Research
In this research, the writer used test as the instrument. The test which was given to the students was English test sheet of multiple choices. The materials of the
test were recount text and narrative text. Before the researcher gave the materials in the control class and experiment class, she gave pre-test which was content of 30
multiple choices items. And then, in the eighth meeting she gave post-test which was content of 30 multiple choices items. Its purpose was to know st
udents’ reading comprehension after the students were given the treatment of reciprocal teaching
technique by the teacher.
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Ibid, p. 314.
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SuharsimiArikunto, ProsedurPenelitian, Jakarta: PT. RinekaCipta, 2010, p. 183.
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