Observing the teaching and learning activities in SMP BOPKRI 1

49 researcher got the permission, the researcher started to conduct the research. First, the researcher conducted a writing test about recount texts. The researcher also reviewed the material which was about recount texts writing in 40 minutes before conducting the writing test. The test was to measure the respondents‟ writing skills. After reviewing the material, the respondents did the test in 40 minutes. The sample of students‟ writing test is presented in Appendix 10. Thereafter, the researcher also asked the teacher to assess the respondents‟ writing test by refering to the writing score rubric see Appendix 6 in order to make the result of the respondents writing test valid and reliable. The result of the writing test is presented in Appendix 11. After conducting the writing test, the researcher also asked the respondents to answer the questionnaire. In the questionnaire, there were 20 items which were going to be answered. The respondents answered the questionnaire in 10 up to 15 minutes. Furthermore, the questionnaire was used to measure students‟ metacognitive learning strategies and the result of students‟ metacognitive learning strategies is presented in Appendix 12. Hereafter, the researcher also used interview as the second instrument in this research. The interview was conducted after the respondents did the writing test. This test was used to support the relation between metacognitive learning strategies and the students‟ writing skills for writing recount texts in class 8A of SMP BOPKRI 1 Yogyakarta. Moreover, the researcher interviewed five representatives from the respondents who were chosen by the teacher and the result interview with the students is presented in Appendix 19. They were chosen PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 50 based on their writing score in the learning process which represented two lowest scores, one middle score and two highest score. Since each respondent did the interview in 6 up to 7 minutes, it was done in 35 minutes for five respondents. Besides, the researcher also conducted an interview with the English teacher in SMP BOPKRI 1 Yogyakarta and the result interview with the English teacher is presented in Appendix 20. It was conducted in order to strengthen the findings of the research result and to find out whether the English teacher has implemented metacognitive learning strategies or not. The researcher did a statistical study based on the writing test and questionnaire after conducting the research in class 8A of SMP BOPKRI 1 Yogyakarta. Before analysing the data by using SPSS.v.21, the researcher organised all data in the form of table and did a statistical study as explained in the following section.

C. Data Analysis

In this section, the researcher presents the data which answers the research questions in the form of writing test, questionnaire and interview. This section consists of two parts. The first section presents the findin gs of the students‟ responses to writing recount texts when they use metacognitive learning strategies in class 8A of SMP BOPKRI 1 Yogyakarta. The second section presents the findings of the correlation between metacognitive learning strategies and the students‟ writing skills for writing recount texts in class 8A of SMP BOPKRI 1 Yogyakarta. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI