Language Model Theoretical Bases in Competency-Based Curriculum

25 Modelling the text stage can make students understand the structural pattern and linguistics features of the text type. Recount is the text type which is learnt in the second semester of the eighth grade students of Junior High School, particularly recount with funny ending is overwhelmingly the most widely experienced by the students in their school. It means that students spend a lot of time telling the story of what they did or found out in their daily life. Thus, it can also create students to understand the generic features of the recount with funny ending easier. There are many things to comprehend in using of text modelling in teaching writing. Ideally, the teachers have to make the students aware about those things. Therefore, there are some theories that contribute to the use of text modelling, such as genre based approach that can make students understand and comprehend a written language well. Based on some preliminary observations, this research intends to find out what the students’ perceptions on the use of text modelling in teaching writing to the eighth grade students of SMP BPK Penabur Indramayu are and what the class procedure of the use of text modelling in teaching writing to the eighth grade students of SMP BPK Penabur Indramayu is. 26

CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

This chapter presents research method, research participants, research instruments, data gathering techniques, data analysis technique, and research procedures.

A. Research Method

This research was a survey research. According to Ary, Jacobs, and Razavieh 2002, p. 27 there are two instruments that are usually used in a survey research, those are interviews and questionnaires. A survey research often took the form of a questionnaire that was sent out to a group of people about a particular topic. It was used to measure group’s attitudes, opinions, and perceptions Wiersma, 2005, p. 169. For that reason, this research used those instruments to answer the problem formulation. According to Ary, et al. 2002, p. 28 state that there are the advantage and disadvantage of using the survey research. The advantage of using the survey research is that substantial amounts of information can be collected in a relatively short time. One disadvantage, however, is that the number of people who response to questionnaires, especially when it is mailed, is often low. A low response rate raises the question on how much the information obtained actually represents the attitudes, opinions, and characteristics of the group as a whole. In obtaining the data, the researcher used qualitative method. Qualitative method was described as approaches