4. Population and sample
The population of the study is the students of second year of State Junior High School 4 Kota Tangerang Selatan. They consists of
nine of classes, each of them consists of 30 students. Therefore, there are 270 students in number.
The writer did not take the total population as sample. She only took one class VIII-9 which has 30 students. The sample is taken by
using purposive sampling technique, the determining of class that will be studied based on the policy and ease from the school.
5. Technique of data collecting
There are three techniques of collecting data, the writer uses test, interview and document.
a. Test
Test is a technique in collecting data to find out and identify the student’s difficulty in learning question-tags.
b. Interview
This technique is used to supplement the data needed which are not covered by technique previously. The writer asked some question
to the students, to know the process of teaching and learning in class and to reinforce the analysis and to find out the reasons why
the students faced the difficulties in learning question-tags. This technique was used to interview students of class VIII-9 of State
Junior High School 4 Kota Tangerang Selatan. c.
Document It is used to know the accurate data about location, profile of
school and population where the research is carry out.
6. Instrument of research
The writer uses a written test as the instrument for collecting the data. For the test the writer gave selected item from the grammar
book. The types of the test are multiple choice items, fill in the blanks, and essay form. It is consists of 25 items which are divided into two
parts. The first and second parts of the test is the form area. In part A
there are 15 items multiple choice form, and In part B there are 10 items fill in forms. They are many aspects in the form area, they are
the form of „be’, modals, simple present tense, past tense, present continuous tense, present perfect, imperative sentence, request
sentence, subject That, subject There, subject I and plural word.
B. Research findings
1. Data description
As stated in chapter 1 of this paper. The writer formulated field and library research. She got the data from the English test score about
question tags. Having finished the field research on the form and intonation of question tags, the writer obtained the score. This
following table is the result of student’s score.
Table 3.1 Students
’ Score of test result No
Sample Score
No Sample
Score
1 Students 1
65 16 Students 16
66.5 2
Students 2 71.5
17 Students 17 61.5
3 Students 3
66.5 18 Students 18
61.5 4
Students 4 81.5
19 Students 19 55
5 Students 5
80 20 Students 20
65 6
Students 6 71.5
21 Students 21 58
7 Students 7
70 22 Students 22
76.5
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