Research Setting RESEARCH METHOD

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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD

This chapter is broken down into eight parts. The first part is the description of the research setting. The second part is the research design. The next is the description of the research subject. The fourth is about the types of the data. The fifth is about the research data collection. The next is about the research validity and reliability. The last part is the research procedure.

A. Research Setting

The research was conducted in SMA N 1 Godean. It was situated in Sidokarto Street No. 5, Nogosari, Sidokarto, Godean, Sleman, and Yogyakarta. It was a suburb, in the middle area of paddy field area. It was around 10 km from the heart of the Yogyakarta city. The students came from the nearby area such as Kalibawang, Moyudan, Girimulyo, Tempel, Mlati, Gamping Minggir, Seyegan, and Godean itself. They came from various background of family, which mainly are from middle to high level economic background. The school consisted of three grades which were grade X, XI, and XII comprised of natural science and social science major. Each grade comprised of 6 groups of learners. Grade X consisted of 2 social science group and 4 natural science groups. Grade XI and XII consisted of 3 social science groups and 3 natural science groups. The maximum number of students in each group was 32 students. To accommodate around 576 students’ learning processes, the school had 52 teachers and staff. 59 The school had a vision in developing the students’ potential. The vision was being excellent in achievements, mastering knowledge and technology as well as to having noble characters. Therefore, as the latest curriculum update, the school implemented the Curriculum 2013 from the very first time up now. The school was a sekolah berwawasan gender gender based school meaning that the rights between men and women of the school members were equal in terms of using the facilities, expressing opinion, and participating in school activities. It did not limit female students’ access to education nor make the male students superior. Female and male students socialised each other every day at school as well as help one another. The school operated from Monday to Saturday from 6.50 up to 13.50. Only on Friday, it finished at 11.30 a.m. At 6.50 the Muslim students started their activities by reciting the Quran while the non-moslem students had a congregation activity in some room. They did it for 10 minutes. At 7.00 a.m. the students had Bimbingan Belajar Eksklusif abbreviated BBE for 40 minutes. BBE was an additional activity which aimed to be the remedial learning or enrichment for the students in comprehending the intended knowledge. Actually, one lesson hour equaled to 45 minutes. However, because there was BBE, it was adapted and one lesson hour became 40 minutes. The first break was 15 minutes only. However, the second break was 30 minutes because the members of the school were to say Dzuhur prayer together in the mosque. However, because the mosque was rebuilt and renovated during the research, the teachers, staff, and the students said their prayer in a clas sroom that was set to replace the mosque’s function 60 momentarily. The room was not very large; therefore there would be 3-4 waves in conducting the Dzuhur prayer. It sometimes caused the students come late into the classroom. In the subject matter of infrastructure, this school was continually develped compared to its origin. When the research was conducted, one floor and two-floor main buildings had been built and were equipped with the wi-fi. The school had many rooms and facilities. It had 23 classrooms, a library, a biology laboratory, a chemist laboratory, a physics laboratory, a computer laboratory, a multimedia room, a workshop, a hall, a principal room, an administrative room, a teacher room, a counselling and guiding room, a monitor room, a basketball court, a volleyball court, a football field, three parking areas, the Baitus-Salam mosque, canteens, a green house, a storehouse, a student cooperative, and a post office. A sketch depicting the school layout is provided in Appendix O see Appendix O for the school layout. The room for the research was number 11. A meeting also conducted in the hall which was symbolized with the grey square number 20 in the right. Generally, the classrooms were provided with some facilities. They were chairs, tables, a white board, an LCD projector, room loudspeakers, a clock, information boards, the school’s vision and mission. This school had a special policy to support the development of the foreign and local languages used in the school. Every Monday morning especially when there was a flag ceremony, one representative of one class was to perform a speech in a language other than Indonesia. Although in the school the students were taught only Indonesian, Javanese, and English and generally in their daily they onley 61 spoke Indonesian and Javanese, surprisingly, some students performed their speech in Chinese, Korean, Italian, German, and Russian. The research was conducted in the second semester in the 20152016 Academic Year. The observations were done in October to November 2015 while the actions were conducted on January 21 st , 2016 to March 3 rd , 2016. The actions were carried out based on the school schedule. The actions completed were 6 meetings in total. They were conducted every Thursday on the two last hour session. The research used the English as a compulsory subject session. Actually the time allocated to every teaching and learning session was 45 minutes per hour. However because there was a school policy regarding to BBE in the morning as the beginning of the school activity, the session was reduced to 40 minutes per session. As the impact, the hour for teaching English as a compulsory subject became 80 minutes only per week.

B. Research Design