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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Place and Time of Research
1. Place of Research
The research was carried out at the English Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto. The subject
of the research is the fourth semester students of English Department at this faculty. The object of the research is the use of teaching materials, internet and
textbooks, viewed from students’ creativity. 2.
Time of Research This research was carried in the even semester of the 20092010 Academic
Year. There are three steps in this research: preparation, implementation, analyses of the data, and report writing. The details of each activity are as follows:
a. Preparation
1 July 2009
: Title Consultation 2
August 2009 : Proposal Draft Consultation
3 October 2009
: Proposal Draft Seminar 4
November 2009 : Instrument Consultation
b. Implementation
1 November 2009
: Research Permission 2
March-April 2010 : Data collection
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c. Analyses of Data and Research Report
April-May 2010 : Data Analysis and research report
B. Research Method
This research is categorized as an experimental study since it attempts to provide treatment to experimental group and maintain control over all factors that
may affect the result of an experiment. In the other word, the experimental research attempts to investigate the influence of one or more variables to other
variables Ary, 2007: 317. Experimental research has some characteristics as follows: 1 manipulation
or treatment of an independent variable; 2 other extraneous variables are controlled; 3 effect is observed of the manipulation of the independent variable
on the dependent variable Ary, 2007: 338. This experimental research is aimed at observing whether there is an
interaction between teaching materials and writing achievement viewed from students’ creativity. The technique used in this experimental research was by
comparing the experimental group having internet materials as the teaching and learning materials to the control group having textbooks as the main source of
teaching and learning materials. Each group was classified into two different levels of creativity: high and low.
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C. Population, Sample, and Sampling
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