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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
A. Place and Time
This research is conducted at the 8
th
grade students of 127 Junior High School. The place is located at
Jl. Kb. Jeruk Raya, RT 10 RW 05, Kb. Jeruk, Kota Jakarta Barat, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta 11530. T
he research is held in Oktober to November 2016.
B. Method and Research Design
The method of this research is quantitative method. It is often about calculation and analysis of the numerical data. Meanwhile, the design used is a
quasi-experimental design. The design is used to examine cause and effect of using story mapping technique on students’ reading comprehension of narrative text. In
this research, it compares experimental class where story mapping technique is applied in learning of narrative text class and controlled class where story
mapping technique is not applied in learning of narrative text class. The effectiveness can be seen by comparing improvement of students’ score of
experiment class and controlled class of post-test after they have been given treatments by the writer.
C. Population and Sample
The population of this study is the eighth grade students of 127 Junior High School consisting of 7 classes. The sample of this research is 2 classes of 8
th
grade students which are VIII F as experiment class consisting of 35 students and VIII G
consisting of 35 students as controlled class. The technique of determining sample in this study is purposive sampling
technique. The consideration used to choose this sampling is teacher suggestion of the homogeny o
f students’ score in English.
D. Instrument
The instrument used for this research is test. The tests are divided into pre- test and post-test. The test consists of 25 multiple choices question of narrative text.
The tests are tested out to some students in another class of experiment and controlled class. There are two kinds of test used; they are pre-test and post-test.
The result is calculated and analyzed by using ANATES to find out the validity and reliability of the questions. Besides, pre-test is provided
to find out students’ reading achievement in narrative text before the treatment while post-test is
conducted after students of experiment and controlled class had treatment from the writer.
E. Technique of Collecting Data
The test is used to collect data in this research. The tests are divided into pre-test and post-test. The pre-test is conducted for both classes
—experimental class and controlled class. It is given before the treatment to experimental class.
This pre- test is provided to find out students’ achievement in reading narrative text.
After the treatment, post-test for experimental and controlled class is conducted to find out students’ achievement in reading narrative text. Six meetings are conducted
in each class for this research. Those consisted of first meeting for pre-test, four meetings for treatment and last meeting for post-test.
F. Technique of Data Analysis
In order to obtain the result of research, the data are analyzed using statistical analysis. After collecting the data, the data have to be analyzed. The data
on pre-test and post-test are analyzed by SPSS program. To find final result of the research, several tests should be passed. After all of the test passed, the data are
analyzed by t-test formula. The use of t-test formula is to test the significance of the
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