Research Design The Operational Definition of the Terms

CHAPTER 3. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

These chapters are presented the research methodology applied in this research. It covered research design, the operational definition of the terms, area determination method, subject determination method, and data collection methods.

3.1 Research Design

This research was intended to describe the tenth year students writing ability at MAN 1 Jember in 20142015 academic year. The research design was conducted based on the following steps: 1. Determining the research area purposively 2. Collecting Supporting data by interview and documentation 3. Determining the respondents of the research, the class X MIA 1 students of MAN 1 Jember by using Purposive Sampling. 4. Constructing the research instrument in the form of recount text writing test to get the main data of students‟ writing ability. 5. Consulting the research instrument to the teacher and the consultants 6. Collecting the primary data by giving writing test to the respondents 7. Analyzing the results of the test 8. Classifying the result of the data analysis based on the classification of the score levels quantitatively 9. Concluding the research result descriptively to answer the research problem.

3.2 The Operational Definition of the Terms

Operational definitions of the term were intended to avoid misunderstanding of the concepts used in this research. The terms that were necessary to be defined operationally were as follow: 1. Descriptive Study Descriptive study in this research means a type of research that tried to describe the real condition in the field that was the students ability in writing a recount text. 2. Recount text Recount text is a text which retells events or experiences in the past. Its purpose is either to inform or to entertain the audience. Recount generally begins with an orientation which gives the reader the background information needed to understand the text. It tells about who involved and where it happened. Here the recount text used was personal recount text. This research only focused on one type of recount text, namely personal recount text. It has been choosen because of some reasons. The first, it was taught in the first semester of the class 10 and also it was appropriate for the students‟ level. The second, recount text was related to their experience, since the text which retell the past events or experiences that have been experienced by the writer. 3. Writing Ability In this research writing ability referred to the students ability in writing a recount text in the form of scores measured by writing test on the aspects of content, organization, vocabulary, grammar, and mechanics. The writing test was limited with the minimum of 10 sentences written by the class X MIA 1 with chose only one of the five topics given.

3.3 Area Determination Method