The Place and Time of Study Population and Sampling Instrumentation

CHAPTER IV RESEARCH PROCEDURES AND FINDINGS

A. RESEARCH PROCEDURES

1. The Place and Time of Study

The study was conducted at the eleventh grade students of YANUSA Vocational High School. It was located at Jl. H. Saikin no 10 Pondok Pinang South Jakarta. The research itself was conducted while writer was having practice teaching in YANUSA Vocational High School. It took about 4 months. The field research was done from 28 th April 2008 until 26 th May 2008 in 9 meetings. Before conducting the research, the writer interviewed the English teacher to get some information about the English teaching learning process there and any information to support the research. The research consisted of giving pre-test on Wednesday 7 th May 2008, teaching the experiment class by applying collaborative learning in teaching conditional sentence type 2, and giving post-test after doing the treatment in the classroom on 26 th May 2008, the writer collected the data from pre-test and post-test, and then he started to begin analyzing them.

2. Population and Sampling

The population of this research is the eleventh grade of Vocational High School of YANUSA Pondok Pinang, South Jakarta. The eleventh grade of Vocational High School in Yanusa has three classes, consists of 74 students. And for this research, the writer only chose one class that is accountancy class which consists of 24 students to be a sample of this study.

3. Instrumentation

In this research, the writer used the test which is made by her and from any appropriate grammar exercises book. The material of the test was taken from their handbook and other related books about conditional sentence type 2. The test was divided into two parts. The pre-test had been given before the treatment was given and the post test was given after she had given the treatment to the class. The question consisted of 20 questions, which has two kinds of test, those are multiple choice test and tranformation test. Writer believes that the score in multiple choice tests needs to be supported by the score in essay test. The measurement in taking score of transformation test is stated as follow: • Score 4 : Correct in grammatical order, word order and relevant with the question. • Score 3 : Incorrect in grammatical order or word order and relevant with the question • Score 2 : Incorrect in grammatical order or word order and irrelevant with the question • Score 1 : Incorrect in grammatical order and word order and irrelevant with the question

4. Procedures of Collecting Data