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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
A. Type of Research
The type of this research was classroom action research. The research was chosen because it provides a method that can be done by the researcher and the
teacher to improve the practice of education by studying issues of problem they face, especially in reading. The researcher in this study focused on improving
students‟ reading skill by using the mind mapping. The researcher invited the Englishand the students of XI IPA 1 in SMA N 1 Kretek to work collaborativelly.
There are several concepts of a classroom action research. The researcher chose one of them which is from Kemmis and McTaggart. The process is
presented below.
Figure 4. Kemmis and McTaggart’s concept of action research 1988: 10
The steps of action research according to Kemmis and McTaggart 1988 are planning a change, acting and observing the process and consequences of the
change, reflecting on these processes and consequences, replanning, acting and obseving again, and then reflecting again. Those steps were done to find out the
most appropriate actions to improve the students‟ reading skill of class XI IPA 1 at SMA N 1 Kretek in the academic year of 20122013.
B. Research Setting
The research took place at SMA N 1 Kretek located at Kretek, Bantul. Its setting is the English class of second grade at SMA N 1 Kretek, class XI IPA 1.
SMA N 1 Kretek consists of nine classrooms.Each consists of three classes from first grade until third grade. There are 270 students totally, so there are about 30
students for each class. This school has some office rooms. The first room is for headmaster and
guest room, second is for teachers, third is for vice headmasters, and fourth is for clerical employees. The other rooms are; a school health unit, a kitchen, a science
laboratory, a language laboratory, a basketball field, a library, a music laboratory, two canteens, a mosque, „pendopo joglo’ for art and sport activities, two teacher‟s
toilets, six students‟ toilets, and three parking areas. There are also some facilities that support the teaching learning process
and other school activities. They are computers, tape recorders, dictionaries, televisions, LCDs, sport equipments, maps, etc. The teacher sometimes used the
facilities to make students more interested in English teaching learning processes. The collaborator taught the students two times every week.
C. The Participants of the Research
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