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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. The Method of Research
A classroom action research CAR is used in this study as the method. According to Santrock, action research is research used to solve a
specific classroom or school problem, improve teaching and other educational strategies or make a decision at a specific level.
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As the researcher ideal firstly to do is recognizing the problem happening in the classroom to sustain
his find out the way to figure out the problem. There are four phases in doing the action research that have to be
passed by the researcher, those are; planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. Those phases are considered as one cycle, and it would be
explained in the following explanation in detail.
B. The Subject and the Objet of Study
1. The Subject of Study
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It is the students of eighth grade of Junior High School of Darul Ma’arif that located at Jl. R.S. fatmawati No. 45 south Cipete, Jakarta. The
number of the students in this class is thirty students. The writer chooses this subject, because of according to the teacher’s teaching experience in
this class. He looks this subject have had lowest achievement in speaking. 2.
The Object of Study The object of the study here is role play in developing students’
speaking ability.
C. The Writers’ role on the Study
The role of researcher in classroom action research is Teacher at eighth grade of SMP Darul Ma’arif and his partner as observer, he conducts
this research collaboratively.
D. The Time and Place of the Study
This research is carried out for four months started from September up to December 2010. The researcher takes a place at eighth grade of SMP
Darul Ma’arif, which located on Jl. R.S. fatmawati No. 45 Cipete south Jakarta, academic year 20102011.
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E. Research Design