The Difficulties of Teaching Learning Process

digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id 34 spelling ability. The result of the research showed that “Spelling Bee game” success improve the seventh graders’ spelling ability, to increase their motivation and awareness of the use of correct spelling in writing, and to learn new vocabulary items. 105 In learning vocabulary, teacher can uses game like the research above, and also teacher can uses media to teaching learning process. One of the familiar media that can uses by teacher is words wall vocabulary media. The next, the research entitled The Use of Word Wall Media in Teaching Descriptive Writing from Winda Kurniasih, Regina, Zainal Arifin. 106 These researches happen in Koperasi Senior High School Pontianak. The result of this research is the use of word wall media is effective to increase students writing ability. The researcher conducted a pre-experimental study with measurement as the technique of collecting data and written test as tool of collecting data. The last previous research from journal research was written by Janiel M. Wagstaff entitled “Building Practical Knowledge of Letter-Sound Correspondences: A Beginners Word Wall and Beyond”. This study discussed about the development of self-monitoring and searching behaviors in beginning readers. The result of the study showed the used of word wall can increase English ability of students; one of the students can scans the Word Wall until she found the letters she needs, and then wrote resume. Finally the students can write down her writing. 107 From this result, researcher concluded that word wall can influents English skill students. They can transfer the word in the wall to the papers and created into sentences. Therefore, the researcher concluded that the previous studies above have similarities and differences area of the research. Those previews research above became the reference and resource to conduct the research about using word wall vocabulary to teach spelling. 105 Ibid,. 106 Winda Kurniasih, et.al, “The Use Of Word Wall Media In Teaching Descriptive Writing”, Pontianak: English Education Program Fkip Untan, 2014, 4 107 Janiel M. Wagstaff, “Building Practical Knowledge of Letter-Sound Correspondences: A Beginners Word Wall and Beyond”, The Reading Teacher, Vol. 51, No. 4, Dec., 1997 - Jan., 1998, p 298-304 digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id 35

CHAPTER 3 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This chapter discussed about the research methodology that can conduct the research. The parts of research method are Approach and Research Design, Setting of the Study, Data and source of data, Research instrument, Data analysis technique, checking validity of findings and research stages.

A. Approach and Research Design

In this research, researcher used descriptive qualitative approach to design and analyzed data. Descriptive research included surveys and fact-finding enquiries of different kinds. The major purpose of descriptive research is description of the state of affairs as it exists at present. 108 So in descriptive research, researcher did not control the variable, but researcher only report what is happening or what has happened in her research. Then, Qualitative research is concerned with qualitative phenomenon, i.e., phenomena relating to or involving quality or kind. 109 Additionally, qualitative research is research that contain attitude or opinion researcher based on research, that the research uses depth interview to get the purpose of the research. On the other reference, the term qualitative research can be taken refer to research that is based on descriptive data that does not make regular use of statistical procedures. 110 In conclusion, qualitative research is the research that uses descriptive for the explanation and describe the research, did not use statistical procedure to take the data. Researcher described the phenomenon at the seventh grade students on MTsN Bangsal Mojokerto about the implementation of word wall vocabulary that can increase their English spelling. And found the factors that influence their difficulties in learning English, especially spelling. 108 C.R. Kothari, Research Methodology Methods and Techniques Second Revised Edition india: New Age International Publisher, 2004, 3. 109 Ibid,. 110 Alison, Mackey - Susan M. Gass, Second Language Research, London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers, 2005, 162