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CHAPTER III Research Methodology

A. Place and Time of the Research

This research was conducted at Department of English Education of UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, which is located at Jl. Ir. H. Juanda No. 95, Ciputat, Tangerang Selatan, Banten, 15412. The research started on odd semester in academic year 2015-2016 from May up to November 2016.

B. Research Design

In this research, the researcher used quantitative method through correlational research. Correlational research or ex post facto research focuses on the connection between variables as they take place in natural setting. 1 In addition, correlational research is used to find out whether there is a significant correlation between one variable to another variable. Correlational design is also a procedure in quantitative research in which investigators measure the degree of association or relation between two or more variables using the statistical procedure of correlation analysis. In this research, there are two varia bles, the students’ grammar mastery which is independent variable and the students’ reading comprehension which is dependent variable.

C. Population and Sample

The population of this research was the 6 th semester students of Department of English Education of State Islamic University Syarif 1 William Wiersma Stephen G. Jurs, Research Methods in Education: An Introduction, USA: Pearson, 2009, p. 190. Hidayatullah Jakarta on academic year 2015-2016. The 6 th semester of English education divided into three classes, class A, B and C. The total of them are 71 . Therefore, for this research, the researcher just took the 31 students from two classes; B and C class, as the sample. The researcher took the sample by using random sampling method.

D. Techniques of Data Collection

The researcher collected data by getting documentation of score and doing test in order to get data about the students’ grammar mastery scores and the students’ reading comprehension scores. In getting grammar score, the researcher collected the data from the lecturer at the Department of English Education. The researcher chose Grammar 5 due to the subject of Grammar 5 at DEE of UIN Jakarta was more focus on TOEFL preparation and the students have learned grammar 1 to 4 which are the basic knowledge of grammar that should be mastered by the students in order to learn grammar 5. Then, in getting reading comprehension score, the researcher conducted the reading comprehension test to 6 th semester students. Due to the material of Grammar 5 was more focus on TOEFL preparation, the researcher adapted the reading comprehension test from Barron’s Practice Exercises for the TOEFL Test of English as a Foreign Language of 6 th Edition. The reading comprehension test consists of 30 items.

E. Techniques of Data Analysis

In this step, the researcher used correlational design. The researcher compares the students ’ grammar mastery scores and their reading comprehension scores at the 6 th semester of Department of English Education of State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta. To find out the correlation between students ’ grammar mastery and their reading comprehension, the researcher used the Product-Moment Correlation coefficient formula. Product- Moment Correlation is one technique that is usually used to find out the significance of the correlation between two variables. This technique was published by Karl Pearson; therefore it is often called as Pearson Correlation Technique. The next step is analyzing the data. This analyzing is done in order to know whether there is significance correlation between the students’ grammar mastery and their reading comprehension at the 6 th semester of Department of English Education of State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta. Then, to find out the result of this study, the researcher used the Pearson Product Moment Correlation formula, as follow: 2 The formula is: � = � − � 2 − 2 � 2 − 2 Note: � : Correlation coefficient between the students’ grammar mastery scores and their reading comprehension scores at the 6 th semester of Department of English Education of State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta � : Number of respondents : Distribution of students’ grammar mastery scores : D istribution of Students’ reading comprehension scores ∑X : Total score of students’ grammar mastery scores distribution ∑Y : Total score of students’ reading comprehension scores distribution ∑XY : Total number of multiply between X scores and Y scores X 2 : Total multiply of X score multiplies X score 2 Budi Susetyo, Statistika untuk Analisis Data Penelitian dilengkapi cara Perhitungan dengan SPSS dan Office Excel, Bandung: PT Refika Aditama, 2010, p. 180.