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B. Setting and Subject of the Study

In the research, setting means the place and time at which the research will be taken place. Place is the location where the research conducted to overcome the research problem Sukardi, 2003:53. In this study, the researcher choosen State Islamic Senior High School 2 Tulungagung as a place for conducting the study. This study was done on April until June 2012. The school is located in Beji, Boyolangu, Tulungagung. Since there are many Islamic Senior High Schools in Tulungagung are this program, the research were restricted only for this school which had program, such as it often hold English seminars, English olympiad likes speech contest, debate contest, English role play, and English sing a song. These activities indicated that the school leader, teacher, and student conducted practices to improve the students’ speaking skill. “Subject of research is the process of selecting a number of individuals for a study such as a way the individual represent the large group from they were selected” Nasution, 1991:119. In this study, the subjects were school leader, teachers and students of The State Islamic Senior High School 2 Tulungagung.

C. Data and Data Sources

1. Data “The term data refers to the rough materials researchers collect from the world they are studying; they are the particulars that form the basis of analysis” Bogdan and Biklen, 1998:106. Arikunto states,” Data is result of research record in number 40 and fact” 1998:91. It means that data is the number of fact found by the researcher as result of conducting research. Data in this research were qualitative data. Descriptive data will be in the form of words and pictures rather than in the form of numbers. In this study, the researcher took the data in the form of the utterances from the informant, documentation, doing observation, and also using document file from the institution. These data were the important aspect in conducting the qualitative research. 2. Data Sources A data source is a person, something, or places that provides information for a piece of research. In this study, data sources were the school leader, teachers and students as primary sources. In addition, the document file of the school institution was also collected as a supporting data in this study. The document file of this school institution were the total of students, the list of students’ name, the list of teachers’ name, etc. The researcher got more information from these data sources to collect the data needed.

D. Data Collecting Method and Istruments