Teaching Reading Narrative Text Using Directed Reading-Thinking Activity DR-TA Strategy

H. Research Hypothesis

The hypotheses of this research can be seen as follows: H 1 : Directed Reading-Thinking Activity DR-TA strategy gives influence on students’ reading comprehension of narrative text. H : Directed Reading-Thinking Activity DR-TA strategy does not give influence on students’ reading comprehension of narrative text. 27

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

A. Place and Time of the Research

This research was conducted at SMA Negeri 10 Tangerang Selatan which is located at Jl. Tegal Rotan, Sektor 9, Tangerang Selatan, Banten, on the first semester. The school had 720 students divided into 21 classes. There were 7 classes for the tenth grade, 7 classes for the eleventh grade and 7 classes for the twelfth grade, but the research was only conducted to two classes of the tenth grade students. The research was conducted for three weeks. It began on August 30 th 2015 and ended on October 23 rd 2015.

B. Research Design

In this research, quantitative research was used. According to Creswell, in quantitative research there are three design; experimental, correlation and survey. 1 The experimental design was chosen in this research. Experiment is a procedure for testing a hypothesis by setting up a situation in which the strength of the relationship between variables can be tested. 2 Also, it established possible cause- effect between independent and dependent variables. 3 Specifically, this research used Quasi-Experiment Design. It was because the research was conducted to two classes, experimental and controlled class, which was not randomly assigned. 4 Quasi-Experiment Design is one of approaches of a research that uses two groups; those are experimental class and control class. Hadeli stated that quasi-experiment is used because the researcher wants to know the students’ achievement difference by using “new” method rather than the mostly teaching method used by the teacher. Precisely, the quasi- 1 John W. Creswell, Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Reasearch – International Edition, Boston: Pearson, 2008, p. 60. 2 David Nunan, Research Method in Language Learning, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. 24 – 25. 3 John W. Creswell, op.cit., p. 299. 4 John W. Creswell, Research Design Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches 3 rd Edition, California: Sage Publications, Inc., 2009, p. 158.