before the treatment is given to the subjects McMillan, 1992:176. The following diagram presents the design used in this research.
A : Experimental group B : Control group
X : Treatment O : Posttest
McMillan, 1992:175
3.2 Area Determination Method
The purposive method was applied in determining this research area. A purposive method is a method employed in selecting particularly informative or
useful subjects McMillan, 1992:76. The area of this research was SMPN 2 Sukodono Lumajang. The area was determined purposively based on two
considerations. The first was academic reason and the second was technical reason. Based on the academic reason, the inductive method had never been used
by the English teacher in teaching simple past tense through narrative stories in SMPN 2 Sukodono Lumajang. For the technical reason, both the headmaster and
the English teacher gave permission to the researcher to conduct the experimental research at this school.
3.3 Respondent Determination Method
Arikunto 2010:188 states that respondents are the people who give responses or answers to the researcher’s questions either orally or in the written
form. The populations of this research were the eighth grade students of SMPN 2 Sukodono Lumajang in the 20142015 academic year. There were seven classes of
the eighth grade. There were 36 students in each class of 8A-8G. The member of the population of the eighth grade students was 252 students.
Referring to the research design, two classes were taken as the samples; one class as the experimental group and another one as the control group. Cluster
Group Treatment
Posttest A
X O
B O
random sampling was used to determine the respondents. According to Lodico et al.
2006:145, cluster random sampling selection is a procedure where entire groups, not individuals, are randomly selected.
To know where the analyze was homogeneity or not the eighth grade students’ simple past tense scores obtained from the English teacher’s documents
were analyzed by using ANOVA Analysis of Variance on SPSS Statistical Package for Social Science. If the population was homogeneous, two classes
were taken from those classes by lottery. However, if the population was heterogeneous, the researcher took two classes when had the closest mean score.
3.4 Data Collection Methods
