Research Design Research Objective Place and Time Population and Sample

CHAPTER IV RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND FINDINGS

C. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

7. Research Design

In designing the research, correlating to the chapter, the writer would use analytical-descriptive method, while the data the writer collected are students answer sheets about complex sentences which are suitable with the curriculum and of course which had been learnt by the students. After collecting the data, the writer analyzed the data with several steps: she identified the errors students made, described the errors, explained why the errors exist and last evaluated the errors by giving the right answers. At last, the writer would get a conclusion about the students’ skills in forming English sentences especially in complex sentences.

8. Research Objective

The objective of the research in this “skripsi” is to know the students’ skill in writing especially in forming complex sentences. Because, hearing from the teacher that the students still can’t order the narrative texts well. By knowing their skill in forming complex sentences, the writer hoped it can help students’ lack in ordering the narrative texts. Besides, may the research enhance the writer’s knowledge in English and help the English teachers to correct the lack.

9. Place and Time

As stated in Chapter One on the method of study, a field research was also conducted. The field research was taken on May 13 th 2008 at 2 nd Year Class of Science Program on May 28 th 2008 at 2 nd Year Class of Social Program of SMU TRIGUNA.

10. Population and Sample

In this research, the writer took the population from all students of SMU TRIGUNA 2 nd Year Class Period 2007-2008 both science class which are 33 students and social class which are 41 students. The total number of the students is 74. While for the research respondent, the writer took 70 sample from the 74 population, because when the field research was conducted there were four students who were not present at the class, one student of Science Class got some illness and three students of Social Class were absent with no reason.

11. Research Instrument