negative evaluation, test anxiety, and anxiety of English classes. There are
33 items in this questionnaire. The respondents were asked to rate each item on five-
point Likert scale ranging from 1 ‘strongly disagree’ to 5 ‘strongly agree’.
In the end, the questionnaire responses are statistically analyzed. Kolmogorov-Smirnov test is used to find out whether the data populations
are normally distributed or not. If the data populations are normally distributed the writer is going to use Pearson Product Moment to see
whether there is a significant correlation between students’ anxiety and
their English reading skill or not.
C. Population and Sample of the Research
Population is a broadest level of participants. It is a group of people with one characteristic that distinguishes the group from other groups.
3
Hence, the population of this study was the whole of the tenth year students of SMK
Negeri 3 Kota Tangerang. There were six departments in the first grade at that school, including
three classes of TKJ Teknik Komputer dan Jaringan, two classes of AP Akomodasi Perhotelan, three classes of Tata Busana, three classes of Tata
Boga, one class of Tata Kecantikan Rambut, and one class of Tata Kecantikan Kulit. Each class consists of approximately forty five students.
Table 3.1 Population of the Research
No. The Number of Classes at the Tenth Year Students of SMK Negeri
3 Kota Tangerang Department
Total
1. TKJ Teknik Komputer dan Jaringan
3 classes 2.
AP Akomodasi Perhotelan 2 classes
3. Tata Busana
3 classes
3
John W Creswell, Op.cit., p. 142.
4. Tata Boga
3 classes 5.
Tata Kecantikan Rambut 1 class
6. Tata Kecantikan Kulit
1 class
Total 13 classes
Sample is a group which is selected from target population and studied by researcher.4 Sample is needed in collecting data. To minimize the excessive
participants, the writer decided two departments with two classes for each department as the sample of this study using cluster random sampling. Cluster
random sampling is the selection of groups, or clusters, of subjects rather than individuals.
5
They were two classes of Tata Boga department and two classes of AP department. The reason of choosing those classes was because those
classes need to master the English the most in order to accomplish the requirement of the tourism field.
Table 3.2 Sample of the Research
No. The Number of Students
Sample Class
Male Female
1. AP 1
10 22
32 2.
AP 2 12
19 31
3. Tata Boga 1
9 18
27 4.
Tata Boga 2 10
19 29
Total 41
78 119
D. Instrument and Technique of Data Collection
In collecting the data, the writer used two instruments. They are questionnaire and documentation.
4
John W Creswell, Loc.cit.
5
Bernard C. Beins, Maureen A McCarthy, Research Methods and Statistics, New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc., 2012, p. 95.
