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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

A. The Place and Tim

e of Research The place of this research is SMA Dua Mei Ciputat, Jl. H. Abdul Ghani No. 135 Ciputat Timur, Tangerang Selatan. The writer chooses the first grade students of SMA Dua Mei Ciputat to obtain the data which is used as object of this study. The research was started from 19 th of March 2013 to the 20 th of March 2013.

B. The Population and Sample Taking

The population of this research is the first grade students of SMA Dua Mei Ciputat, Tangsel that consists of 60 students who are distributed into two classes, X-1 and X-2. In this research, the writer took the purposive clustering sample technique. The sample of this research is class X.2 which consists of 30 students. The writer takes 20 students who have written texts more than 100 words because the writer gave the limitation of writing. The writer creates the writing so that the students produce similar writing.

C. Method of the Research

In this study, the writer used the descriptive qualitative method. The writer did some procedures to have the result of the research. First, the writer gave the written test to the students of X-2 of SMA Dua Mei; then he collected the paper test from the students as the data. Second, he identified the errors of the tenses which are made by the students. Third, he described and classified the errors of the tenses based on types of errors from Heidi Dulay, those are Addition, Omission, Misformation, and Misordering. The next, he counted those errors to find out which types of error which the students make the most. Last, he interpreted the data and concluded the result of the research.

D. The Instrument of Research

To collect the data of this research, the writer gave a test to the first grade students of SMA Dua Mei Ciputat. The writer used a guided writing for the test in order the students know what should be written. Then the students’ assignments are collected by the writer. From this, the writer will know the common errors and the sources of error made by students in narrative writing focused on simple past tense.

E. Procedures of the Research

The first, the writer prepared the instrument of the test. Second, the writer asked permission to the principal of SMA Dua Mei Ciputat to do the research. Next, he made a schedule with the English teacher of SMA Dua Mei Ciputat to conduct the test. After collecting the data, the writer analyzed it based on Carl James’ procedures of error analysis; they are error detection, error location, error description, error classification, and error count.

F. Data Analysis Technique

The technique of data analysis which is used by the writer in this research is qualitative analysis technique which function is to describe and interpret the result of quantitative data. For getting the quantitative data, it will describe in the table of percentage and formula as follows: P = F X 100 N Notes: P: Percentage F: Frequency N: Number of cases total of frequency 1 1 AnasSudjiono, PengantarStatistikPendidikan, Jakarta: PT. Raja GrafindoPersada, 2005, p.43.