CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter presents and discusses about place and time of the study, research design, subject of the study, research instrument, data and source data,
techniques of collecting data, and techniques of data analysis.
A. Place and Time of the Study
The writer did this research at MTs Pembangunan UIN Jakarta. She conducted this research at the school about three months; they are from
December, 17
th
2008 up to February, 13
th
2009.
B. Research Design
The design of this study is descriptive evaluative about teaching functional expression for the first grade students of MTs Pembangunan UIN Syarif
Hidayatullah Jakarta based on KTSP syllabus. This study is aimed at describing and evaluating about the using and understanding of functional expression in daily
life activities.
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The Descriptive study is designed to obtain the current status of phenomena and is directed toward determining the nature of situation as it exists
at the time of study that is in MTs Pembangunan UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta. It is called evaluative because it tries to evaluate objectively about the using
functional expression at the first grade students of MTs Pembangunan UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta based on KTSP syllabus. The evaluation is conducted by
way of analyzing the students’ responses from the questionnaire given about teaching-learning functional expression.
C. Subject of the study
The object of this study is MTs Pembangunan UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta at Jl. Ibnu Taimia IV Kompleks UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Ciputat. The
subject includes the English teachers and the students of the first grade of MTs Pembangunan UIN. There were 240 students who studied in the first grade of this
school which were divided into seven classes namely 7A until 7G. There were two English teachers who taught at the first grade of MTs
Pembangunan UIN, they are Ms. Wiwin Witri, S.Pd and Ms. Prastya Aghawaty, S.Pd. who teaches class 7A until 7G.
Here the writer took the sample only two classes from the total of population. This sampling was based on the English teacher discussed who held
the class 7A until 7G. The technique of sampling used is simple random sampling. It caused the population that the writer observed is homogeny.
D. Research Instrument