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a. Subject of the Study Population and Sample
Subject of the study play an important role on any experiment. They are the main factor to check and measure whether the experiment is success or not.
i. Population
According to Anderson as adapted in “Prosedur Penelitian”, population is a set or collection of all elements possessing one or more attributes of interest
Arikunto, 1998. In other words we can mention that a population is the whole research subject. Tuckman adds that the population or target group used in a
questionnaire or interview study is that group about which the researcher is interested in gaining information and drawing conclusions. Similarly, Best says
that a population is any group of individuals that have one or more characteristics in common that are of interest to the researcher.
There are so many public elementary schools in Semarang. Therefore, SDN Manyaran Semarang was chosen here for the research, with a consideration
that the students in each class consist of heterogeneous students. It can be said that the students can represent complexity of young learners. different culture,
economical background, social background, educational level, etc.
ii. Sample
Arikunto 1998: 117 states that “sample is a part of the population”. Tuckman adds that sample is the representative group from this population to
serve as respondents 1978: 226.
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used. Purposive means that the writer picked the sample of the population based on the group of participants.
This study aims to describe how pictures motivate children to learn English vocabulary for that reason, the subject that was observed in this study are
the students themselves. The writer held the experiment at SD Negeri Manyaran 03. It is located on Jl. W.R. Supratman 178 – 180 Semarang. The classes which
are taken for the writer’s research were the fifth class. They are 40 students from V A and 40 students from V B.
Table 3.2.2 Number of the Sample No
Class Male
Female Number of students
1 V A
24 16
40 2 V
B 23
17 40
3.3 Instrument of the Study
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