The Activities of The Experimental Class

s = standard deviation

3.7 Procedure of Collecting Data

The experimentation was conducted as follows: 1 Choosing the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Pati as the population of the study. 2 Taking 2 classes randomly as the samples, one class is experimental class and the other class is control class. I took class VIII-A as the experimental class and class VIII-B as the control class. 3 Conducting try out test to know the validity and reliability of the instruments. I took class VIII-G as the Try-Out class. 4 Doing the real experimentation.

3.7.1 The Activities of The Experimental Class

a Pre-test Pre-test was given firstly before doing the treatment. The pre-test is aimed at finding out the basic knowledge or the prior knowledge and the students‟ ability in reading a recount text. Firstly, I came to the chosen class. Then I explained to the students about what they were going to do. Then I distributed the instruments and asked them to do the pre-test. b Activities in the Treatment In an experimental study, treatment is usually done to find out the difference between the two classes which are treated by using different techniques. The experimental class was treated by using the visualization in desuggestopedia teaching method to do reading a recount text. Then, the students applid them in recount text. The materials of the treatment, which I gave, are as follows: what recount text is; what the rhetorical steps of recount are; what visualization in desuggestopedia teaching method is; how the the visualization in recount text is carrried out. c Post-test I administrated the post-test at the end of the experimental activities. It is aimed at finding out whether there is significant difference between the result of pre-test before doing the treatment and after conducting the treatment. In other word, conducting the post-test is aimed at showing the result of students‟ achievement after doing the treatment. Table 1.4 List of Experimental Class Activities No. Activities Materials Time Allotment 1. Pre-test I gave a test before doing treatment. It was held on August 17 th 2011. The time allotment was 60 minutes. 2. The first treatment I gave the first treatment. I delivered the teaching-learning It was held on August 18 th 2011. The time allotment to give the process based on the desuggestopedia teaching method and visualized the recount text which is entitled “Unforgettable Holiday” treatment was 1x40 minutes. 3. The second treatment I gave the second treatment. I delivered the teaching-learning process based on the desuggestopedia teaching method and students visualized the rec ount text “Last week, Mr. Sarwan‟s wife…..”. It was held on August 18 th 2011. The time allotment to give the treatment was 1x40 minutes. 4. The third treatment I gave the third treatment. I delivered the It was held on August 22 th 2011. The time allotment teaching-learning process based on the desuggestopedia teaching method and students visualized the recount text “Last month, my family and I…. “. to give the treatment was 1x40 minutes. 5. The fourth treatment I gave the fourth treatment. I delivered the teaching-learning process based on the desuggestopedia teaching method and students visualized the recount text they had composed. It was held on August 22 th 2011. The time allotment to give the treatment was 1x40 minutes. 6. Post-test I gave the last test after doing all the treatments. It was held on August 23 th 2011. The time allotment

3.7.2 The Activities of the Control Class