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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Setting of the Research
The study is a classroom action research, which is aimed to implement the use of audio
– visual aids to improve students’ speaking skill. The research is conducted at the first grade students of SDN Cemara Dua NO. 13 Surakarta
20092010 academic year. The school is located in the centre of Surakarta city. It is near Balapan railway station, so everyone can easily reach this school. The
place is so strategic. The school is one of favourite schools in Surakarta, and this school is the only one school which has RSBI class in the Surakarta in elementary
school level. The school is big enough. The buildings consist of three main buildings, namely campus 1, campus 2 and campus 3. There are many students in
SDN Cemara Dua No. 13, more over than 800 students study there, and the teachers and staff are about 80 peoples.
There are six grades, 1 up to 6 grades. The grade is parallel. It means that each grade has several classes. There are three classes in 1
st
grade of RSBI and two classes of Regular. In the second grade, there are two RSBI classes and
regular classes. In the third up to sixth grade, there are three regular classes, namely class A, B and C. There is also acceleration class, class 4 half 5 and 5 half
6. The school facilities are complete, such as classrooms, language laboratory, two computer laboratories, teacher office, headmaster office, two mosques, three
canteens, students’ health centre, science laboratory etc. In RSBI class, each class
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has AC, laptop, speaker, LCD auto focus, lockers, van, colourful tables and chair. SDN Cemara Dua No. 13 Surakarta uses KTSP curriculum as the basis of
teaching and learning process. Instructional processes are done in six days from Monday to Saturday.
The research was carried out from Saturday 10
th
April to Saturday 29
th
May 2010. To know the subject and school background, the researcher did the pre-observation and pre-test in the first week and the researcher conducted the
action research the last two weeks. Based on school schedule, practically there were three meetings each week, on Monday, on Thursday and on Saturday.
B. Research Subject
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