Interview Documentation Data Collection Method

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3.5.2 Interview

Interview was used to collect the secondary data needed in this research. According to Singarimbun in Effendi and Singarimbun, 1995:192, interview is a process of interaction and communication. It is supported by Bungin 2006:126, who notes that interview is a process of collecting data in a research by doing question and answer method from an interviewer to one or more interviewees. It means that interview is one of the methods to collect the data which requires the interviewer to ask some questions related to the information needed to the interviewee as the respondent. The technique of interview which is applied in this research is semi- structured interview. According to Arikunto 2006:202, semi-structured interview is one of the techniques of interview which requires the interviewer to ask the questions which have been prepared. Then, the interviewer modifies the questions by asking the other questions to get more detail information. In this research, the interview was conducted with one of the English teachers who teach in the seventh grade at SMPN 3 Jember. It can be said that the interviewer was the researcher, whereas the interviewee was the English teacher. This interview was used to obtain the data about the curriculum for Junior High School which is used by the English teacher of the seventh grade, the teaching of writing a descriptive paragraph at SMPN 3 Jemb er, and the seventh grade students’ ability in writing a descriptive paragraph. Besides, from this interview, it could be known the students difficulties in writing and its aspects. Moreover, the interview was used to obtain the data about the minimum score of English in this school so that it could be known whether or not the r esult of the students’ writing was able to pass the minimum score.

3.5.3 Documentation

Another method of collecting data used in this research is documentation. Arikunto 2006:206 confirms that documentation is obtaining the data about certain thing or variable in the forms of notes, transcript, books, newspaper, 28 magazine, ancient inscriptions, notes from meeting, legger, agenda, etc. In this research, the school documents which were used were conversion table see table 3.2, table of minimum standard score see table 3.3, the names of the seventh grade students at SMPN 3 Jember in 20142015 academic year and the students’ mean score of the previous writing achievement see appendix 4. Conversion table was used as the researcher guidance to determine the students’ writing score based on 2013 Curriculum. Then, table of minimum standard score was used as the source which shows English passing grade as compared to those of other subjects. The last document was used as a guide to determine the respondents of this research.

3.6 Data Analysis Method