Research Design Subject of the Research

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CHAPTER III METHOD OF INVESTIGATION

The method of investigation in this action research consists of some parts and steps. The writer would like to talk about research design, subject of the research, data collection, analyzing the data, and steps of doing action research. In this study, the writer describes the process of teaching writing procedure text by using the audio-visual aid of processes.

3.1 Research Design

A research method used in this study is an action research. Action research is a research which is done by a researcher to improve the quality of the teaching learning activities. Moreover, Wallace 1998: 4 states that “action research is a kind of research that is done by systematically collecting data on your everyday practice and analyzing it in order to come to some decisions about what your future practice should be”. Action research entails identifying teaching strategies to solve certain practical teaching and learning problems Hartoyo 2009: 38. It means that teaching itself is part of research. In other words, action research is a kind of teaching in which teaching and research is inseparable. The writer tries to teach writing procedure text using the audio-visual aid of processes as a new media. It is started with a preliminary idea as the finding problem faced in a class and then continued by pre-survey and diagnosis. The 27 26 spiraling cycles includes planning, implementation, observation and reflection. The following is the action research cycle: Figure 3.1 Steps of Doing Action Research Hopefully, by doing this action research, the teaching learning process of writing procedure text would be better. Preliminary Idea Pre-survey Diagnosis Implementation Observation Reflection Planning 27

3.2 Subject of the Research

In this study, the writer did the research in the seventh grade of SMP Negeri 2 Tengaran in the academic year 20102011 as the subject of the study. SMP Negeri 2 Tengaran is located at Jl. Salatiga-Solo Km 07, Tengaran, Kab. Semarang. SMP Negeri 2 Tengaran is a national standard school SSN in which the input of the students is good enough. The mean of students‟ score of their elementary school final exam was 7.9 in the academic year 20102011. This school is also completed with good facilities, such as language laboratory, computer laboratory, multimedia and some classes which are completed with IT, so the teaching and learning process runs well. There are 27 classes which are distributed into 9 classes for the seventh year, 9 classes for the eighth year and 9 classes for the ninth year. The writer decided to conduct this action research in class VII-i, especially in writing. The students get difficulties in producing a text in which most of them are lack of structure, vocabulary and grammar. Since this is the class of the writer‟s that faced a problem in writing, the writer tried to increase the students‟ mastery in this language skill using a new media.

3.3 Data Collection