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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

A. Research Setting

This classroom action research was held in SD Negeri Cengklik II Surakarta. The school is located in Jl. Letjen Sutoyo no.16 Cengklik, Nusukan, Surakarta. Geographically, SD Negeri Cengklik II Surakarta has a strategic place. This school is near to the main road; therefore, it is easy to get transportation. Actually, there are some other buildings borders SD Negeri Cengklik II Surakarta. There are SD Negeri Cengklik I and SMA N 5 Surakarta in the north side, Letjen Sutoyo Street on the west side, SMA N 6 Surakarta on the south side and sport field of SMA N 6 Surakarta on the east side. The location of SD Negeri Cengklik II Surakarta is in educational environment where there are many other school surrounding it. Beside SMA N 5 Surakarta, SMA N 6 Surakarta, and SD Negeri Cengklik I Surakarta, there are also Tunas Pembangunan University and also Tunas Pembangunan Vocational school. This environment make the students’ learning environment is quiet and safe enough to conduct teaching and learning process. SD Negeri Cengklik II Surakarta has six grades of class. They are the first until the sixth grade. Each grade consists of one class only and each class consists of 37 up to 50 students. There are six classrooms in SD Negeri Cengklik II Surakarta. Beside the classrooms, the other rooms in SD Negeri Cengklik II Surakarta are teacher office, headmaster office, and computer room. commit to user 29 The time of the research was arranged based on the school’s academic schedule. Therefore, the writer conducted the research in the second semester of academic year 20092010 from April to June.

B. The Subject of the Research

The subject of the research was the fourth grade students of SD Negeri Cengklik II Surakarta. This class consists of 37 students. They are 14 boys and 23 girls. The writer chose class IV as the subject of the research based on the fact that several of the students are cleverer and some are very active while the others have low achievement in English especially on vocabulary. It seems that some of them do not have willingness to study. This unwillingness can be seen from their behavior in English lesson time, from the observation of teacher’s class and from the first day of the research, researcher had seen that some students are asleep and some even making their own conversation with friends. The researcher conducted the study through teaching and learning process by employing board games in teaching vocabulary. The researcher acted as the teacher and the English teacher acted as the observer.

C. The Method of the Research

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