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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Story Mapping

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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY OF RESEARCH

This chapter presents the method of research, subject, and object of the study, time and place, research design, the Classroom Action Research CAR procedures technique of collecting data, technique of the data analysis, data validity, and criteria of the action success.

A. The Time and Place of the Study

This research is held for two months started from May up to June 2013. The place is at VIII class of SMP Negeri 245 Jakarta, and academic year 20122013.

B. The Subject and the Object of Study 1. The Subject of Study

The subject of this study is students at grade VIII class of SMP Negeri 245 Jakarta, and academic year 20122013. The number of students consists of 32 thirty two. It is chosen based upon the interview result with the English teacher. The English teacher informed about the class proving that they have the lowest score; it was 40 forty in reading test among the other second grade classes. Therefore the students need an appropriate strategy to help them in improving their scores toward reading.

2. The Object of Study

The objective of this study is to find out the use of story mapping treatment on the reading comprehension ability in terms of narrative text at VIII class of SMP Negeri 245 Jakarta.

C. The Method of Study

The method used in this study is Classroom Action Research CAR. According to Arikunto, Suharjono and Supardi, classroom action research is a research which is conducted by teachers, collaborate with the researcher or conducted by the teacher who acts as the researcher in a class or a school where she or he teaches, by emphasizing on the improvement of the teaching learning process. 1 It is similar with McNiff in Wijaya Kusumah and Dedi Dwitagama’s book stated that classroom action research is a research that is held by the teacher and the result from his research could be used as a tool to improve the teaching skill. 2 Based on the definition above the implementation of Classroom Action Research is to overcome the problems found in the classroom and to improve the quality of teaching and learning process.

D. The Writer’s Role on the Study

The writer is as an observer in the classroom. He monitories the students in CAR and create a lesson plan and the evaluation or test before CAR pre-test and after CAR post-test in each final cycle. Besides, the writer also accumulates and analyzes the data and then he reports the result of study.

E. Research Design

The Classroom Action Research CAR procedure used in this research is Kurt Lewin’s design. It was consisted of two cycles in which each cycle contains four phases; planning, acting, observing, and reflecting 1 Prof. Suharsimi Arikunto, Prof. Suhardjono, and Prof. Supardi, Penelitian TindakanKelas, Jakarta: PT Bumi Aksara, 2009, p.57 2 Wijaya Kusumah dan Dedi Dwitagama, Mengenal Penelitian Tindakan Kelas, Jakarta: PT MALTA PRINTINDO, P. 8

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