reading, students will be able to comprehend and to use the language because it also builds the other abilities. In addition, reading is also tested in National Examination
in Indonesia. Consequently, students need to have good reading ability to pass the National Examination.
But in reality in the class, based on the writer’s pre-observation before
conduct this research, the writer found that the students were not able to respond the teacher’s question and they were not able to comprehend the texts after teaching
learning process. Finally, they got low score achievement in reading English. After analyzing the case, t
he writer found some causal factors that affect students’ reading comprehension. First, the problem comes from the students such as they had low
motivation to read, they had difficulties in interpreting some aspect in reading, etc. second, the problem comes from the teacher. The teaching learning strategy used by
the teacher is monotonous, therefore it made the students were bored while teaching learning process. The other aspect is most activities in the classroom is dominated by
the teacher, therefore student had little rules in teaching learning process. Hence, the writer assumes that the teacher should find an alternative and appropriate technique in
teaching the reading; because by finding an appropriate technique, the writer assumes that all the problems
such as students’ low motivation to read, teacher’s dominated classroom, etc. will be covered by the technique it self.
Those explanations above are seemed to be reason for the writer to conduct this research. Because the teaching strategy is a major problem in this research, the
teacher must find alternative and appropriate technique which can be applied in the classroom. Finally, that
technique is hoped to give the influences in students’ reading comprehension.
G. Hypothesis
Hypothesis is a temporary answer or a conclusion of the research. To find out is there any influences of using Two Stay Two Stray TSTS technique towards
students reading comprehension of recount text. Therefore the hypothesis of this research is, that Two Stay Two Stray TSTS technique is giving influences or
effective towards students’ reading comprehension of recount text of class VIII of
SMP Dharma Karya UT Pondok Cabe Ilir, Pamulang, Tangerang Selatan.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter explains the methodology of the study. It consists of place and time of the study, the object of the study, method of the study, the population
and sample, technique of data collection, technique of data analysis, and statistical hypotheses.
A. Place and Time of the Study
This research took place in SMP Dharma Karya UT which is located at Jl. Talas II No.30 Pondok Cabe Ilir, Kecamatan Pamulang, Kota Tangerang Selatan,
Banten, on first semester. The writer started the research on August 2014. This research was
conducted on August 2014. The writer conducted 6 meetings for each both experiment class and control class. The first meeting was used to give the pre-test
in three clases. Next, second meeting until fifth meeting used to teach in experiment class and control class. The writer used the treatment in the
experimental class. The last meeting was used by the writer to give the post-test. Then, the writer collected all the data and analyzed them.
B. Method of the Study
In this research, the researcher used quantitative research. This research was conducted using an experiment design. Emzir pointed out as quoted from Gay
that experimental research is research methodology which can test hypothesis related to casual relationship.
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In addition, Jogiyanto stated that experiment is a study which involves researcher manipulates some variables, analyzes them, and
observes the effect of the variable.
2
Meanwhile, Kasiram explained that experimental research is a research methodology where the researcher
manipulates a stimulus or condition, then they observe the effect of the changing
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Emzir, Metodologi Penelitian Pendidikan Kuantitatif dan Kualitatif, Jakarta: PT Raja Grafindo Persada, 2008, p. 63-64
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Jogiyanto, Metodologi Penelitian Sistem Informasi, Yogyakarta: C.V Andi Offset, 2008, p. 95
