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B. Time and Place of the Research
The researcher conducted the study during February 23
th
2013 up to December 27
th
2013. This range time was from the first time the researcher proposed the research until she finished it. The place of this research is at
Jakarta State Islamic University UIN Syarif Hidayatullah. The researcher chose this place for her study because she considered that English Education
Department EED –the department for English teachers’ training- as the object of this study. Therefore, this place is chosen as the place of the study.
C. Population and Sample
Population is a place of generalization that consists of subject and object of the research with certain quality and characteristic that are
standardized by the researcher in order to learn from them and then to draw a conclusion from them.
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The elements of population can be individually, family, a social group, school, class, organization, etc. In other words,
population is an organization of the elements.
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It can be concluded that population is the place where information are collected by the researcher. It
can be human, animate, product, or even document to be learned and to draw a conclusion from them. In this research, the populations were students of the
3
rd
semester of English Education Department EED of UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta.
Depending on term of time, ability, and fund, the researcher took sample of the populations which have been decided. Sample, according to
Arikunto is a part of the population that becomes a representative for all population. In this research, the sample of the population is taken through
purposive sampling. The C class of the 3
rd
semester was chosen for the sample of this research.
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Sangadji, Op.cit., p.26.
5
Nana Sudijana, Penelitidan Peneliti Pendidikan, Bandung:PT. Sinar Baru, 1989, First Edition, p. 84.
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D. Instrument of the Research