CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND RESEARCH FINDINGS
A. Research Methodology
1. Objective of the research
This research tries to find out if there is a significant difference of reading improvement between students who are taught with collaborative
learning and students who are taught without collaborative learning. This research will point out whether collaborative learning is an effective method
to teach reading or not. If reading improvement of the class taught with collaborative learning is higher than the class taught without collaborative
learning and if the difference is significant, it means that collaborative learning is appropriate to teach reading. On the other hand, if the improvement
of the class taught with collaborative learning is not higher than the class taught without collaborative learning or the difference is insignificant,
collaborative learning is not appropriate.
2. Place and Time
This research took place in an Islamic junior high school called Madrasah Tsanawiyah Raudlatul Irfan. The school is located in Lengkong
Kulon, Tangerang. This school was established in 1975. It has 283 students who are
divided into nine classes, three classes of seventh grade, three classes of eighth grade and three classes of ninth grade. Today, there are 98 students of
seventh grade. They are divided into three classes. Each class consists of 30- 35 students. In the eighth grade, there are 86 students who are divided into
three classes. There are 25-30 students in a class. There are 99 students in the
ninth grade. They are divided into three classes. Each class has 30-35 students.
Those classes are handled by 20 teachers. The facilities of that school include classrooms equipped with standard media such as white
board, a computer lab, and a badminton court. The research lasted for 4 weeks, with 2 sessions every week for each
group experiment group and control group. It began on October 21, 2008 and it ended on November 13, 2008.
3. Population and Sample