Research Approach Data and Sources Roles of Researcher

CHAPTER III METHOD OF INVESTIGATION

Method of investigation in a research is one of the essential points since it is considered as the map of conducting a research. This chapter discusses the research approach, data and sources, roles of the researcher, procedure of the research, instruments, and methods of analyzing the data.

3.1. Research Approach

This research is a qualitative that uses action research procedure as the guidance of conducting the research. It means that I use classroom action research along with the four basic steps of action research. In this research, I tried to explain the process of the implementation of character building education using fieldtrip in Ronggowarsito Museum to teach writing recount text. The data is in a form of the explanation of the process and also the results of students ‟ tests. It is due to the emphasis of this research was not only in the linguistic competence of the students, but also the process of obtaining cultural awareness of them. 41

3.2 Data and Sources

The subject of this research was the students of eighth grade of SMP I Semarang in the academic year of 20102011. There was seven classes of the grade eight; however, I decided to take only one class as the action class; 8E class which consisted of 36 students, 14 males and 22 females. Besides that, I added Ronggowarsito Museum as the source of data of this research since I also conducted some observation there to know the condition of conducting fieldtrip. Due to the concern of this research were the cultural awareness of the students and also their achievements of writing recount text, the data of the study were obtained from the writing product of them. From their writing products, I analyzed the content of them to find their opinion of cultural awareness and also their linguistic competence

3.3 Roles of Researcher

In conducting this research, I played some roles: 1 As an observer, I observed the teaching learning process of writing recount text in SMP 1 Semarang. In addition I observed the process of fieldtrip in Ronggowarsito Museum by the students. 2 As the conductor of teaching learning process teacher, I did some treatments to the students such as conducting teaching learning process, and fieldtrip in Ronggowarsito Museum. 3 As the data collector, I collected the data about the phenomenon under study. In this case, the affective domain of the students towards cultural awareness could be seen from the content of writing of the students. 4 As the data analyzer, I analyzed the data that had been obtained from the observation session and acting session.

3.4 Procedure of the Research