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CHAPTER III PROCEDURE OF INVESTIGATION

This chapter presents procedure of investigation which consists of object of the study, role of the researchers, procedure of data collection, procedure of data analysis and triangulation.

3.1 Object of the Study

This study belongs to a case study by using qualitative descriptive approach. According to Creswell 2014:4 in Utami 2014, qualitative research is an approach for exploring and understanding the meaning individuals or groups ascribe to a social or human problem.This approach is most widely used to qualitative research in education as stated by Gall and Borg 2003 in Duff, Case Study Research in Applied Linguistics 2008:21 in Kartikasari 2014 because it is aimed at giving a clear description of grammatical errors on students‘ monologue speaking test in Muntilan State Junior High School 1in the Academic Year 20142015. In this study, the researcher analyzed the grammatical errors on the students‘ monologue speaking test which the case of spoken descriptive textsproduced by the seventh grade students of Muntilan State Junior High School 1. Moreover, the objectives of this study are to describe the result of analyzing grammatical errors and the most grammatical errors thst the students mostly do on monologue speaking test The case of spoken descriptive texts produced by the seventh grade students‘ of Muntilan State junior high school 1.

3.1.1 Research Setting

The research was conducted at Muntilan State Junior High School 1, Magelang Regency, Central Java. It was a standard school which previously was as a government-funded school with so-called Rintisan Sekolah Berstandar Internasional A Pilot International Standard School in Magelang Regency. It was also as a piloting project school in implementing the new 2013 Curriculum where the researcher had finished teaching practice last year. It was located in the center of Muntilan subdistrict. It was a big school with 457 students coming from different parts of surrounding areas. There were twenty classes which were consisted of 6 parallel classes and two Gifted Classes Cerdas Istimewa. In Addition, each class consisted more or less 24 students. 3.1.2 Research Participants The participants of this study were seven grade students of class 7F of Muntilan State Junior High School 1 Academic Year 20142015. This class consisted 23 students. This class was chosen by the English teacher because the score of speaking test of 7F were average among several classes.

3.2 Role of the Researchers