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Research Design Research Setting and The Subject

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This chapter is presented to describe methodological activities to examine the teaching of simple past tense through Contextual Teaching Learning. This chapter concerns with the research design, research setting and subject, and research procedures.

A. Research Design

The study of classroom action research CAR indicates as a process in which teachers investigate teaching and learning to improve students learning problems. 1 To find out students’ learning problem, Geoffrey E. Mills stated that action research is any systematic inquiry conducted by teacher researchers, principals, school counselors or other stakeholder in the teaching learning environment to gather information about how their particular school operate, how they teach, and how well their students learn. 2 That is why action research is different from other more conventional or traditional types of research; it focused on individual or small- group professional practice. Action research tries to take an action and effect positive educational change in the specific school environment that was studied. The classroom action research design employed in this study was collaborative classroom action research. In conducting the research, the researcher was assisted by the English teacher of SMPN 17 Tangerang Selatan. In this study, the writer has some roles. She becomes the practitioner who taught the simple past tense. Besides, she makes a lesson plan and the assessment in each 1 Cheron Verster,www.teachingenglish.org.uk\think\methodology\action_research.html, August 10 th , 2001. 2 Geoffrey E. Mills, Action Research: a Guide for the Teacher Researcher, 2 nd ed. Ohio: Prentice Hall, 2003, p.5. 26 final cycle. Furthermore, the writer also collects and analyzes data then reporting the result of study. Whereas, the collaborator called the English Teacher becomes the observer who observed the implementation of the action. The design of classroom action research in this study used Kurt Lewin’s design. It consist of two cycles in which each cycle contains four phases; planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. 3 The design of this present research is illustrated as following: Planning Reflecting Adapted from Arikunto, 2009

B. Research Setting and The Subject

This study was conducted at SMPN 17 Tangerang Selatan. This research is carried out during 4 months started from March up to June 2010. The researcher selected Grade VIII-6 which consists of 39 students of even semester in the 20092010 academic year as the subjects of the study. It is chosen based upon the 3 Wijaya Kusumah dan Dedi Dwitagama, Mengenal Penelitian Tindakan Kelas, Jakarta : Indeks, 2009, p. 20. Reflecting Observing Observing Planning Acting Cycle 1 Cycle 2 Acting researcher’s experience during PPKT Praktik Profesi Keguruan Terpadu. The English teacher teaches 6 classes altogether which was divided into two trainers English teacher who trained in that school for about 4 months. The researcher teaches 3 classes; grade VIII- 4 to VIII 6. Based on the result of preliminary study, the grade VIII- 6 has the lowest achievement score among the other class. Therefore, the subject of this study is grade VIII- 6 of SMPN 17 Tangerang Selatan.

C. Research Procedures

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