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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. The Setting of the Research
The research carried out at SMP Negeri 1 Matesih in the academic year of 20092010. The school is located on Jl. Matesih-Tawangmangu No. 1. SMP
Negeri 1 Matesih uses
Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan
as the basis of teaching and learning process. Instructional process is done in six days from
Monday up to Saturday. The students start to learn at 07.00. This research was conducted for 11 months from October 2009 to August
2010. It included the pre-research, action, and activities after the action or writing the thesis report.
B. The Subject of the Research
The subject of the research was Class VIIIA of SMP Negeri 1 Matesih in the academic year of 20092010. The number of the students was 31. The researcher
purposely took the class to be researched because it was very interesting and challenging.
The researcher was really curious with the condition and situation in the class, because there was a problem in their reading comprehension. Besides that,
the students of Class VIIIA come from different economical background. Most of them come from the average to low economical level. Actually, there were some
students who have high ability but they were still passive during the English lesson. The teacher in the school never uses study group or pairs, especially in
teaching reading comprehension. The researcher conducted the study through the teaching and learning process by implementing Cooperative Integrated Reading
and Composition.
C. The Method of the Research
Method is system or way doing something. Every research needs some methods, which depend on the aim of the research and the nature of the topic.
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In this research, the researcher conducted the research using classroom action research. Kemmis 1983 in Hopkins 1993: 44 states that action research is a
form of self-reflection enquiry undertaken by participants in social including educational situations in order to improve the rationality and justice of a their
own social or educational practices; b their understanding or these practices; and c the situations in which these practices are carried out. Another definition
comes from Mills 2000: 5 who states that: action research is a systematic inquiry done by teacher or other individuals in teaching or learning environment to get the
information about and subsequently improve the way particular school operate, how they teach, and how well their students learn.
From the definition above, it can be concluded that the action research is the systematic study attempting to overcome real problems and intended to change
things to be better than before. In this study, the classroom action research is to overcome the stu
dents‟ reading problem and to change the students‟ reading comprehension to be better than before.
In this classroom action research, the researcher used the action research spiral based on Kemmis and Taggart 1988 in Hopkins 1993: 48. The model
can be illustrated as follows:
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Figure 1 The Action Research Spiral based on Kemmis and Taggart 1988: 14
Figure 1 clearly displays that action research consists of planning, Figure 1
Figure 1 clearly displays that action research consists of planning, action,
observation, and reflection before revising the plan.
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D. The Procedure of the Study
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