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prepared to get the improvement in students motivation and achievement, of course the methods need to be revised following the students’ need.
2.3 Theoretical Framework
This study concerns in how improvement takes place in students’ vocabulary understanding. This analysis deals with the effects of using “Fire Coming Out of a Monkey’s Head” song
as the medium to improve students’ motivation in learning vocabulary of narrative text. In order to analyze the improvement, the action research is used, especially classroom action
research as the principal thing in doing the research and observation. The subject of this research is the students in junior high school. The analysis from this
study starts from identifying the problem which occurs. After finding the supporting problem, the writer tries to collect, organize, and interpret the data from the field, then, the
action is required according to the data that have been collected before. After that, some reflections, some revised plans, and do the cycle again are needed to get the optimum
motivation and achievement.
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CHAPTER III METHOD OF INVESTIGATION
Chapter III consists of eight parts. The eight parts in this chapter are: research design, subject of the study, role of the writer, type of data, instrument for collecting data,
method for collecting data, method for analyzing data.
3.1 Research Design
In this study, the research was done by conducting classroom action research. The students were taught with the main treatment : listening to “Fire Coming Out of A Monkey’s
Head” song as a medium to improve students’ motivation in learning vocabulary. Before the treatment began, the students were given a pre-cycle 1 test to understand their profile related
to the narrative text, and at the end of the treatment, final cycle 2 test was given to understand the treatment development which the writer implemented and used to improve
the motivation and their vocabulary understanding.
3.2 Subject of The Study
The subject of this research was VIII A students of SMP N 22 Semarang in the academic year of20122013. The total of the students was 30 students.
3.3 Role of The writer
The roles of the writer in this research were: writer, observer, data collector, and data analyzer. As the writer, the students were taught with the treatment to improve their
vocabulary mastery. As the observer, the students’ need relevant with the treatment and
