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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter presents the place and time of the study, method and design of the research, population and sample of the research, instrument of the research,
technique of data collecting, and technique of data analysis.
A. Place and Time of the Study
This study was conductedinSMA Negeri 3 Kota Tangerang Selatan. It is located at Jl. Benda Timur XI Komplek Pamulang Permai, South Tangerang City,
Banten. The researcher chose this school because it is using Kurikulum 2013 curriculum for tenth year students. The research started on April 15
th
to 20
th
May 2015. It was done by giving pretest, treatment and posttest to the tenth year
students. The writer has 4 meetings for treatment and 2 meetings for pretest and
post-test.
B. Method and Design of the Research
The method usedin this research was a quantitative method. “In quantitative
research the investigator identifies a research problem based on trends in field or on the need to explain why something occurs.”
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This research directly attemps to influence a particular variable. When it is properly applied, it is the
best type for testing hypothesis about cause and effect relationship. Experimental design is apllied in this research. Creswell mentions that
experiment is used to establish possible cause and effect between dependent and independent variables.
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This research adopted a single-group pre and postests design to investigate the effectiveness of using blog. In this design, a single case is observed at two time
points; pre-test and post-test. Changes in the end of study are presumed to be the result of treatment. In this design, no comparison group is employed. In this study,
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John W. Creswell, Educational Research: Planning, Conducting and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research, Boston: 2012, Pearson Education Inc., Fourth Edition, p.
13.
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Ibid.
the dependent variable is blog and writing skill is as an independent variable. The experiment procedure starts with a pre-test and ends with a post-test. Researcher
need to analyze the findings based primarily on differences in the post-test scores of the sample group.
Singh states, “The single individual or one-group experiment is the most elementary and least rigorous design.”
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So, the researcher believed this design will meet to the objective of the research. In addition,
“It consist of comparing the growth of a single group under two different sets of condition-that
is, of subjecting of the group successively to an experimental and to a control factor for equivalent periods of time and comparing the outcomes”
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In the first meeting, the researcher invited the participants to language laboratory and asked them to create an account in Blogger platform. The
researcher chose that blog provided because it is easy to be used and the features support for writing. The next meeting was pretest to see their current writing skill
level. The researcher asked students to write Narrative text including fable, legend, myth, fairy tales, folklore and many more. The students were asked to
write at least 3 paragraphs. They are divided into 10 groups to make easier in commenting others writing. The four students who have first registered number
commented to each other writing among the fourth and the following registered number will do the same. Based on the kinds of participant comment, the students
were divided into two groups in analyzing peer feedback which are the elaborated and basic feedback group. Elaborated feedback refers to useful feedback which
provides detail items from students and basic feedback is merely led to good or poor comments. The following weeks, the researcher started the treatment for
2x45 minutes. Then, they have been given treatment during that time. In the next week, the student did post-test using computer in the language library. The
researcher picked categorized participants based on their kinds of comment to be interviewed. Then the researcher correlated between the results of participants’
writing and interview.
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Yogesh Kumar Singh, Fundamental of Research Methodology and Statistics, New Delhi: 2006, New Age International P Ltd., Publisher, p. 141.
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Ibid.