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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Place and Time of the Research
This study was conducted at SMKN 3 Kota Tangerang. It is located at Jl. Moh. Yamin SH, Babakan, Kota Tangerang. This study was implemented
on July 2015.
B. Method and Research Design
1. Method
Correlation is used in this study to know the relationship between students’ anxiety and their English reading skill at school. Correlational
research is used to describe and measure the degree of association or relationship between two or more variables or sets of scores.
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It is specified as one of quantitative designs.
2. Research Design
This study is conducted to identify the correlation between students’ anxiety and their English reading skill. The writer associated two
variables and interpreted the result. The type of this correlational design is explanatory study in which investigators measure the degree of association
or relation between two or more variables using the statistical procedure of correlational analysis.
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Students’ anxiety was independent variable symbolized by “X”, while the students’ achievement in learning English
was dependent variable symbolized by “Y”.
To achieve this purpose, the writer adopted Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale FLACS questionnaire which is constructed by
Howirtz. The questionnaire focused on communication anxiety, fear of
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John W Creswell, Educational Research: Planning, Conducting and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research, Boston: Pearson, 2012, p. 338.
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John W Creswell, Op.cit., p. 340.
negative evaluation, test anxiety, and anxiety of English classes. There are
33 items in this questionnaire. The respondents were asked to rate each item on five-
point Likert scale ranging from 1 ‘strongly disagree’ to 5 ‘strongly agree’.
In the end, the questionnaire responses are statistically analyzed. Kolmogorov-Smirnov test is used to find out whether the data populations
are normally distributed or not. If the data populations are normally distributed the writer is going to use Pearson Product Moment to see
whether there is a significant correlation between students’ anxiety and
their English reading skill or not.
C. Population and Sample of the Research
Population is a broadest level of participants. It is a group of people with one characteristic that distinguishes the group from other groups.
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Hence, the population of this study was the whole of the tenth year students of SMK
Negeri 3 Kota Tangerang. There were six departments in the first grade at that school, including
three classes of TKJ Teknik Komputer dan Jaringan, two classes of AP Akomodasi Perhotelan, three classes of Tata Busana, three classes of Tata
Boga, one class of Tata Kecantikan Rambut, and one class of Tata Kecantikan Kulit. Each class consists of approximately forty five students.
Table 3.1 Population of the Research
No. The Number of Classes at the Tenth Year Students of SMK Negeri
3 Kota Tangerang Department
Total
1. TKJ Teknik Komputer dan Jaringan
3 classes 2.
AP Akomodasi Perhotelan 2 classes
3. Tata Busana
3 classes
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John W Creswell, Op.cit., p. 142.
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