48 is a correlation bet
ween students‟ metacognitive learning strategies and students‟ writing skills or not.
B. Data Description
This chapter discusses the research sample which was taken from the population of this research. According to Creswell 2015, there are two types of
population, namely probability sampling and nonprobability sampling. In this research, the researcher used probability sampling and it was drawn from the 30
respondents in class 8A. The researcher used probability sampling as representative of the sample in order to generalize the population Creswell,
2005. Before using probability sampling, the researcher had to know some of the major population characteristics as explained in Chapter III. The technique which
is used to select the sample is by using simple random sampling. According to Sprinthall 1991, “random sampling demands that each member must have an
equal chance of being excluded and that no member of the population may be systematically excluded”. Therefore, simple random sampling was used to obtain
a sample that shared the characteristics in the same proportions as in the sample. In addition, the researcher chose class 8A because the students in that class
were the researcher‟s students during the teaching practice in SMP BOPKRI 1 Yogyakarta. Another reason was because the teachers in SMP BOPKRI 1
Yogyakarta gave an opportunity to conduct the research. The research was conducted from 10
th
November – 3
rd
December 2015 and 7
th
April 2016. Before conducting the research, the researcher asked the permission from
the teacher and principle in SMP BOPKRI 1 to conduct the research. After the PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
49 researcher got the permission, the researcher started to conduct the research. First,
the researcher conducted a writing test about recount texts. The researcher also reviewed the material which was about recount texts writing in 40 minutes before
conducting the writing test. The test was to measure the respondents‟ writing
skills. After reviewing the material, the respondents did the test in 40 minutes. The sample of students‟ writing test is presented in Appendix 10. Thereafter, the
researcher also asked the teacher to assess the respondents‟ writing test by
refering to the writing score rubric see Appendix 6 in order to make the result of the respondents writing test valid and reliable. The result of the writing test is
presented in Appendix 11. After conducting the writing test, the researcher also asked the respondents
to answer the questionnaire. In the questionnaire, there were 20 items which were going to be answered. The respondents answered the questionnaire in 10 up to 15
minutes. Furthermore, the questionnaire was used to measure students‟
metacognitive learning strategies and the result of students‟ metacognitive
learning strategies is presented in Appendix 12. Hereafter, the researcher also used interview as the second instrument in
this research. The interview was conducted after the respondents did the writing test. This test was used to support the relation between metacognitive learning
strategies and the students‟ writing skills for writing recount texts in class 8A of
SMP BOPKRI 1 Yogyakarta. Moreover, the researcher interviewed five representatives from the respondents who were chosen by the teacher and the
result interview with the students is presented in Appendix 19. They were chosen PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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