The Students Background The Students Problem

happens because shehe finds something attractive of what they are reading or studying and makes it as something interesting. Interest is one of important factors to help students in doing their study. Muhammad Nur stated, Arousing interest is important to convince students how important the materials are presented, as well as the importance of showing students that the knowledge they will get is useful. 19 Other factors in intrinsic motivation is the matter of need, need also has a significant role in determining the success of learning English as a foreign language, because there are some arguments for teaching foreign language can generally related to needs. 20 19 Prof. Dr. Muhammad Nur, Pemotivasian Siswa Untuk Belajar, Surabaya, Pusat Study Matematika dan IP A Sekolah, Universitas Negeri Surabaya, 2001, p.48 20 Theo Van Els, Learning and Teaching, p. 162 16

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND FINDING

A. Object of the Research

The writer choose SMPN I Babelan Bekasi as the object of the research, considering it is not far and only about 30 minutes to go there from the writers home. Some teacher in the school has already known the writer well.

B. Purpose of the Research

The purpose of the skripsi writing is to find some problem in teaching and learning countable and uncountable noun in the first year SMPN I Babelan Bekasi.

C. Place and Time of the Research

In this research, the writer took the population of the first year students of Junior High school 01 Babelan that is located on Jl. Raya Babelan Kota, Kec. Babelan Bekasi Utara. The research was held over a period of time that is from 29th of January to 28th of February.

D. Population and Sample

As an addition to the library research, the writer also carried out the field research. In this field research, the writer firstly permitted to the English teacher of first year students to substitute in the last 30 minutes before the lesson come to end, to gives questionnaire and written test to the students purposely to analyze the problem faced by them in acquiring English grammar especially countable and uncountable noun.