The Place and Time of the Research The Method of the Research

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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

In chapter III, the writer discusses the research methodology that was used in the research. This chapter contains five sub chapters namely the setting of place and time of the research, the methods of the research, the source of the data, the techniques of collecting data, the techniques of analyzing the data and the research procedure.

A. The Place and Time of the Research

The research was held at SMP N 1 Wedarjaksa Pati, Jalan Raya Pati- Wedarijaksa, located in Panggungroyom Wedarijaksa Pati. The classrooms in this school are physically characterized by standard classroom that represent a range of class size around forty students. The school had twenty one classrooms, namely, there are seven classes of the first grade, seven classes of the second grade and seven classes of the third grade. The research was carried out in February until May 2009. The observation of the classroom and the interviews in order to take the data needed were conducted in May 2009. In this study, the research was conducted in VIII C, VIII D and VIII E class. 48 51 51

B. The Method of the Research

In doing the research, the researcher should provide certain science that is called ―methodology”. Moreover, Nawawi stated that research methodology is the science of method used in doing research to explore and to explain the natural phenomena in social human life using the systematic procedure, regularly, and can be explained scientifically. It means that the research methodology is a method study for doing research in order to explain natural and social phenomena using systematic and regular procedure. In this study, the type of this research is descriptive qualitative method. It means that this research employs the called descriptive and qualitative method of analysis. Qualitative research can be defined as a research relying primarily on the collection of qualitative data Christensen Johnson, 2000: 17. This is an umbrella term covering an array of interpretive techniques which seek to describe, decode, translate and otherwise come to term with the meaning … of certain more or less naturally occurring phenomena …” Van Maanen, 1983: 9 in Bramble and Mason, 1997: 38. It is a study that is aimed to draw meaning from observation taken in natural context 1997: 334. Shortly, qualitative research is a study that relies primarily on the collection of qualitative data with the purpose to describe, to decode, and to draw meaning from naturally occurring phenomena happened. Moreover, Arikunto stated that descriptive method can be divided into two namely, explorative descriptive and developmental descriptive. Explorative descriptive is to describe and to explain a phenomena status and fact. Related to the research, in this study, the writer takes a descriptive qualitative method as the 52 52 proper method to describe the implementation of KTSP in teaching English. Specifically, the writer uses explorative descriptive method because the she needs to describe the implementation of KTSP through the learning process, the teaching materials and the system of evaluation used in the school system.

C. The Source of Data