C. Data Collection
1. Data of the Research
There were two kinds of data in this research called quantitative and qualitative. The quantitative data included the st
udents’ ability in writing. The data were taken from
the result of students’ works in writing score. The qualitative data were about feelings, opinions, expectation,
suggestions, and preferences from the research members and the students related to the method used in teaching and learning about writing. The
sources of those data were in the form of recordings, field notes, interview transcripts, questionnaire, photographs and videos from the documentation
that was done by the researcher.
2. Data Collection Technique
The data collection technique in this research was done through the following ways:
1 Observation in the classroom during the teaching learning process.
This observation was used to know the data about the students’
participation, attention, and activities in the classroom. The observation was done by the researcher and her collaborator.
2 Interview with the students, the observer, the teacher, or the principal
as the collaborator of the research. The interview was related to the action implementation of the research in the classroom with their
opinion and suggestion. In this case, the researcher used an interview
guidance to interview the participants. However, there might be any possible questions and unpredictable questions that would occur to
find out more information from the participants. 3
Testing pre-test and post-test results to know the improvement of students’ ability in writing narrative texts.
4 Documentation in the form of photographs and videos during the
teaching learning process when the research was conducted. In addition, recordings could be used to record the interview with the
students to know their opinion and their impression about the use of short English animated stories in teaching learning process, especially
in wiriting narrative texts.
3. Data Collection Instruments
In this classroom action research, the researcher was the main instrument. Besides, the researcher used other instruments to run this
research. The instruments were used as the means to get the data. The table below will show the instruments and the data obtained.
Table 4. Instruments of the Research No.
Instruments Data
1 Observation checklist for the
teacher and students Field notes, response sheets
2 Interview guidelines
Interview transcripts, interview records
3 Scoring Rubric for the pre-test
and the post-test Test scores
4 Camera
Photographs
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