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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Time and Place of Research
The research was held at Madrasah TsanawiyahNegeriRajegTangerang that is located at Jl. K.H. Ahmad Dahlan, Tanjakan, KabupatenTangerang. The writer
did this research from November, 8
th
2013 to November, 25
th
2013.
B. Method of Research
This research used pre-experimental study. The writer did the research on one class. The writer gave pre-test and post- test to the students. Pre-test was given
before the material was taught and it was done to find out the students’ original
competence. And post-test was given in the last meeting in that class. The writer conducted several meeting in teaching reading comprehension. In the first
meeting, the writer gave reading comprehension test to the student, called pre-test. After four times teaching and learning reading comprehension by using CIRC
Cooperative integrated and reading composition technique, the student was given test again called post-test. To see the influence of this technique to the
students reading comprehension achievement, the writer use comparative technique, the writer compared students’ pre-test score and post-test score to see
whether there are student gain score before and after treatment.
C. Population and Sample
The population of the second year students of MTs Negeri Rajeg is about 320 students. Each class consists of 40 students, starting from VIII-1 up to VIII-8. The
writer used technique purposive sampling, which the way of taking the sample basedthe purpose. In this case 8.7 is chosen as the sample of the research because
that class has not been taught about recount text. Unlike the other classes that have been taught about recount text. The writer only took one class because the writer
used pre-experimental study. The writer took 25 students from that class as the
sample for conducting the process of data analysis because those students were constantly followed all the treatments given from the beginning until the end of
the research.
D. Technique of Data Collecting
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