Subject Place and Time of Research

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This chapter presents the description of the research method that used in the study. It includes research design, place and time of the research, unit of the analysis, the research instruments, technique of data collecting and data analysis.

G. Research Design

The design of this study is Descriptive Qualitative at 7A level of KUMON English Bintaro Utara. The Descriptive study is designed to obtain the currents status of phenomena and is direct toward determining the nature of situation as it exists at the time of study that is in KUMON English Bintaro Utara. Qualitative researchers seek to understand a phenomenon by focusing on the total picture rather than breaking it down into variable. 33

H. Place and Time of Research

The research was conducted to 7A level students of Kumon English Course Bintaro Utara on Jl. Bintaro Utara Q1 no. 11, Bintaro Jaya, Sektor 1 Jakarta Selatan. The research started on June 30, 2008. the writer did an observation and then interviewed the teachers as well as the students.

I. Subject and Source of data

1. Subject

The subject of this study were the students of 7A level of KUMON English Course North Bintaro, whch consists of 55 students. All of the them be handled by two English instructors that manage the teaching- learning activity for this level. 33 Donald Ary and Lucy Cheser Jacobs. Introduction to Research in Education, Sixth Edition. USA: Wadsworth Thomson Learning p. 25 The KUMON strategy applied for teaching-learning activity is that all of the students did not come to the class at the same time. But they came to the class one by one and join the course based on their individual need. Meanwhile, 7A level that consisting of 55 students was selected for the observation of this study. There are 21 levels of English KUMON which taking the course in North Bintaro. That clasified into seven stages. They are: • Stage 1 Level 7A, 6A, 5A In this stage, students are familiar with listening and producing sounds. This is the first time that students connect the sounds with images through the process of listening to the CD and repeating after the CD while looking at the pictures. • Stage 2 Level 4A, 3A, 2A In this stage, students learn to write letters and connect letters with sounds and images. Students also read aloud by themselves from the images and the letters. • Stage 3 Level A, B, C In this stage, students listen to the CD and repeat the dialogue presented in the worksheet. Then the students write and recite the dialogs. The learning focus sentences in this stage are designed to match the social development of the students. These sentences are grouped by their function. • Stage 4 Level D-F The students listen to the stories from the CD player and also pay attention on their worksheet. The students activity are treated to make the new simple sentences by using words range between 150 up to 250 words. • Stage 5 Level G-I In this stage, grammar rules are explained to students throughout: Enable students to understand and produce complex sentences and sentences that include infinitives, tenses and other grammar elements. Enable students to read and understand 300-400 word short stories. • Stage 6-7 J-O The students listen carefully to the story from the CD player and the students try to comprehend the spoken text.

2. Source of Data