The Students Motivation The Students Problem

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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND FINDING

A. Object of the Research

The writer choose SMPN I Babelan Bekasi as the object of the research, considering it is not far and only about 30 minutes to go there from the writers home. Some teacher in the school has already known the writer well.

B. Purpose of the Research

The purpose of the skripsi writing is to find some problem in teaching and learning countable and uncountable noun in the first year SMPN I Babelan Bekasi.

C. Place and Time of the Research

In this research, the writer took the population of the first year students of Junior High school 01 Babelan that is located on Jl. Raya Babelan Kota, Kec. Babelan Bekasi Utara. The research was held over a period of time that is from 29th of January to 28th of February.

D. Population and Sample

As an addition to the library research, the writer also carried out the field research. In this field research, the writer firstly permitted to the English teacher of first year students to substitute in the last 30 minutes before the lesson come to end, to gives questionnaire and written test to the students purposely to analyze the problem faced by them in acquiring English grammar especially countable and uncountable noun. The first year students of SMP 1 consist of 550 students. In this research the writer only took one class from twelve classes as a sample, which consists of 43 members with 18 males and 25 females. The writer took all of them as the sample of the research.

E. Research Instrument

The writer used questionnaire to find out the background of the students and students interest in English. The writer also used the written test to know how far the students can understand about countable and uncountable noun. Apart from that, the writer also made an interview to Mrs. Mulyati Spd as the English teacher.

F. Data Collecting

To gain the data, the writer made an experiment towards the first year students by providing some questionnaire, and some written test above thirty questions; fifteen question are true or false and the other are matching.