Area Determination Method RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

The procedures of the research activities were as follows. 1. Administering the homogeneity test to the population all of the seventh year students of SMPN 2 Balung, Jember, in the 20112012 academic year. 2. Determining the two groups that will be used as the experimental group and the other one as the control group. Based on the result of the homogeneity test analyzed using ANOVA, it was known that the result of „f ‟ was higher than that of the F table. That meant that the population was heterogeneous. Therefore, the researcher needed to take two classes which had the nearest mean score. Class VII C and VII B were chosen as the experimental and the control classes respectively because both classes had the nearest mean score. 3. Constructing Lesson Plans for the experimental and control groups. 4. Conducting the treatment, that was, teaching tenses using NHT technique to the experimental group, while the control group was taught tenses using lecturing technique. 5. Administering the post-test to the experimental and control groups. 6. Analyzing the collected data from the post-test using t-test formula to know whether or not there was a significant effect of NHT technique on students‟ tense mastery achievement. 7. Drawing a conclusion based on the data analysis to answer the research problem.

3.2 Area Determination Method

This research used purposive method to determine the research area. The researcher purposively chose SMPN 2 Balung, Jember as the research area due to some considerations. Firstly, the researcher had got permission from the principal to conduct the research. Secondly, the English teachers at SMPN 2 Balung, Jember had never used NHT technique to teach grammar, especially tenses. Thirdly, the http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id researcher had once taught and had the practice teaching at SMPN 2 Balung, Jember for about three and a half months.

3.3 Respondent Determination Method