CHAPTER IV RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND FINDING
A. Research Methodology
1. Objective of the Research
The objective of the research is to find the empirical evidence whether or not there is significant different between students’ score in teaching the
present continuous tense through audio-lingual method and teaching the present continuous tense through grammar translation method
2. Place and Time
The research took place at Al-Bina Islamic Boarding School, which is located at Jl. Raya Pebayuran Kertasari Pebayuran Bekasi 17710,
It’s for a month on 08 of March to 29
th
of April 2011.
3. Method of Study
The method of this study is experimental study. The writer uses the second grade of female of students Al-Binaa of Islamic Boarding School,
Bekasi as an object of this study. This object would be taught by using two methods. For experiment class is through ALM, and control class is
through GTM.
4. Population and Sample
The writer did the experiment at the second grade at Al- Binaa of Islamic Boarding School Bekasi that involved the process of teaching the
present continuous tense through Audio-Lingual Method. The totality numbers of the population were 45 students from two
classes. But the writer did not take the totality numbers of the population 28
as a sample because at that time there are some students was sick. That was taken from the class of VIII-G and VIII-H, the VIII-G which is
employed 17 students as the control class and VIII-H which is employed 16 students as the experiment class. The sample is taken by using saturated
sampling.
5. Technique of Data Collecting
The technique of collecting data used in this research is: Test, the writer gave the students two test namely pre-test and post-test. Pre-test was given
before she began the teaching learning process in two classes. And the total numbers of the test are 20, which is the pre-test is similar in form to
post-test that was given after two times of the instruction.
6. Technique of Data Analyzing
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