learners should be to use their language proficiency in social interaction. Language learners should focus on the meaning of what they are saying rather than on the
particular language structure. In contrast, most students think that speaking is difficult because they are
accustomed to use their native language in everyday situation. They get difficulties in understanding what others say and delivering what they have in mind. The students
are afraid of making mistakes; in fact practicing is the best way to improve their speaking ability. Thus, teaching speaking should encourage and emphasis on practice
as a way of developing communicative skills. The teacher should give speaking activities that encourage students to speak as natural as possible.
Based on this study, the writer would like to use philosophical question to teach students‟ speaking ability at second grade students of SMA Negeri 4 Kota
Tangerang Selatan in order to encourage them to speak English fluently. Philosophical questions can be alternative for the teacher to
attract students‟ motivation to participate in class discussion. Students work together to generate ideas
to answer their own question about the philosophical issue in the material. Based on the exploration above, it can be assumed that there is a significant
effect of using philosophical question on students‟ speaking ability at the second
grade students of SMA Negeri 4 Kota Tangerang Selatan.
F. The Hypothesis of the Study
Based on the theory above, there are two kinds of hypothesis which can be estimated here, those are:
Ha : There is a significant effect of using philosophical question on students
speaking ability. H
: There is no significant effect of using philosophical question on students
speaking ability.
From the basic problem of the study and theoretical framework which have been started, the writer draws the hypothesis of the study which can be started as
follows: “There is a significant effect of using philosophical question on students speaking
ability at the second grade students of SMA Negeri 4 Kota T angerang Selatan”.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. The Place and Time of the Study
This study took place at SMA Negeri 4 Kota Tangerang Selatan which is located at Jl. WR. Supratman Komp. Pertamina, Pondok Ranji, Ciputat Timur, Kota
Tangerang Selatan. It was conducted on the first semester 20152016 academic year.
The writer conducted this research in four weeks. It began on July 27
th
2015 and ended August 21
th
2015. In the first week, the writer did the permission to the school’s head master and observed the teaching learning process. After that on the
second until fourth week the writer gave pre-test, treatment and post-test.
B. Method and Research Design
This research was a quantitative study in terms of gathering and evaluating data. According to Creswell, a quantitative method is a method which the investigation
focus on the use of postpositive statement for developing knowledge, the use of enquiry strategies such as experiment, surveys, and collect data on predetermined
instruments to get specific statistics data.
1
Furthermore, Sugiyono also stated that quantitative research is an inquiry process of understanding based on distinct methodological traditions of inquiry that explore a
social or human problem. The researcher builds a complex, holistic, picture, analyzes words, reports detailed views of informants and conducts the study in a natural
setting.
2
Thus, this study was conducted to get empirical evidence about the effect of
1
John W. Creswell, Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches: Second Edition
, New York: Sage Publiication, 2003, p. 21.
2
Sugiyono, Metode Penelitian Pendidikan; Pendekatan Kuantitatif, Kualitatif, dan RD, Bandung: Alfabeta, 2013, p. 13.
