CHAPTER III THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RESEARCH
A. The Methodology of the Research
1. The Place and Time of the Research
The research was done at MTs Pembangunan UIN Jakarta. The writer chose the school because the writer believed that Jigsaw
Technique could be applied in that school and also many people assumed that MTs Pembangunan UIN Jakarta has good quality.
The writer did the research from 8
th
to 25 March 2010. He made it in four meetings in each class – experiment class and control
class.
2. The Objective of the research
The objective of the research is to find the empirical evidence whether or not there is significant difference between students’ score
in learning simple past tense by using cooperative learning, especially using Jigsaw Technique and by using Grammar Translation Method in
teaching simple past tense.
3. The Population and Sample of the Research
In this research, the writer took population from the second year of students at MTs Pembangunan UIN Jakarta. The second grade
of this school consists of seven classes with total 242 students. The sample of this research is 58 fifty-eight students which
constitute two classes 8F and 8D decided using purposive cluster sampling technique.
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4. The instruments of the Research
The writer used test as an instrument of the research. He took pre-test first in both of classes - experiment class and control class – to
know that the students relatively have the same knowledge background. In taking test the writer used the same type of test in both
experiment class and control class. After four times of meetings, the writer held Post test. The
writer compared the scores of pre-test and post-test to identify the significant influence of using Jigsaw Technique in teaching Simple
Past tense. For the item of test, the writer used multiple choices. The test
consisted of twenty five items. The score per item is 4. It means that if the students choose the answer of 1 item correctly, they will get 4
scores. We can see that the possible highest score of this test is 100 scores.
5. The Technique of Data Collecting
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