Type of Research Context of the Study

15 1. Classroom Observation Classroom observation was used to see the application of the model NHT learning and to determine the involvement of the students or the students’ responses during the learning process. The observation which was filled in during the learning process by the researcher can be found in Appendix 1.

2. Interview

To support the observation note, the researcher conducted a structured interview. The interview was held during the observation from February 17 th until May 23 rd 2014. There were two interviews. The first interview was with the English class teacher to gain information about students ’ actitivies during the learning process and the second was interviewing 10 students from the class. The interview with the students was for gaining the information about the students’ responses when the teacher use Cooperative Learning using NHT technique in class. From those students, the researcher only took two students out of 10 students per observation to be interviewed straightly after the lesson. There are 5 questions for the teacher and 5 questions for the students. The interview questions were using Bahasa Indonesia as shown in Appendix 2. 16 F. Data Collection Procedures The researcher passed numerous steps of research procedures, because the research took place in the formal institution. The research procedures as follow: 1. Planning. Firstly, the researcher asked for permission from the Principal and the English teacher of the school to observe the learning process. Second, the researcher consulted and arranged the schedule with the English teacher to observe the learning process in the English class. The third was arranging the research instruments. 2. Actuating In this second step, teacher implemented the NHT technique, while the researcher in this step acted as a passive participant who merely observed the learning process. 3. Observing The researcher observed the class activity led by the teacher. The researcher observed the learning process by taking notes of everything that was happening during the learning process. The data gathered were according to the activities in class. The aspects being observed were the activities and the