This tense also may express an activity in progress close in time to another activity or time in the past. For example:
1 When Judy got home, her hair was still wet because she had been
swimming. 2
I went to Jane’s house after the funeral. Her eyes were red because she had been crying.
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Ibid., p. 47.
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter consists of method of research, place and time of research, population and sample, instrument of the research, technique of data collecting,
and technique of data analysis.
A. Method of Research
In this research, the writer uses the descriptive analysis
1
. The method is purposed to analyze problem or case happened at present. Firstly, the writer gave
a test to the students to make recount text and collected. After that, the writer described the errors made by the second grade students of SMP Dharma Karya
UT Pamulang. There are some steps to analyze the errors; the first step is the writer
focused on identifying the errors that students made by analyzing the students’ writing test, the second is the writer described, corrected, classified, and
calculated the errors. Then, the writer made interpreted the data about the possible causes why the students made errors. The last is the writer made conclusion about
the research.
B. Place and Time of Research
For this research, the writer conducted at SMP Dharma Karya UT which is located on Jl. Talas II No. 30 Pondok Cabe Ilir, Pamulang, Tangerang Selatan,
Banten. It was started on 28
th
of November and ended on 5
th
of December, 2012.
C. Population and Sample
The writer focused on her research at the second grade students of SMP Dharma Karya UT Pamulang. There are 56 students which divided into 3 classes.
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Nana Syaodih Sukmadinata, Metode Penelitian Pendidikan, Bandung; PT Remaja Rosdakarya, 2010, p. 72.
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