Objective of the Research Time and Location Method of the Research Population and Sample

CHAPTER IV RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND FINDING

C. Research Methodology

1. Objective of the Research

This study has aims, as follows: a To find out the relationship of parents’ involvement and student achievement especially in English b To know the influence of parents’ involvement on student English achievement c To expand and improve the writer’s knowledge about parents’ involvement on student English achievement

2. Time and Location

The research has been done in Madrasah Tsanawiyah Negeri Tangerang II Pamulang at Jl. Pajajaran No. 31 Pamulang Tangerang Banten. While the time of research is for one month, namely from January 20, 2009 until February 20, 2009 and the questionnaire was given in February 11, 2009 until February 17, 2009.

3. Method of the Research

In doing the research, the writer uses quantitative method. Then, the correlation technique is applied to know the influence parents’ involvement on student English achievement. The independent variable of this research is parents’ involvement variable X and the dependent variable is student’s English achievement variable Y. In this case, it can be assumed that parents’ involvement in teaching and learning English variable X is considered as a factor that influence student’s English learning achievement variable Y. Finally both variables can be tried to be correlated. X Y Notes: X = Parents’ involvement Y = Students English achievement = Correlation

4. Population and Sample

The population of the research consists of eleven classes with total 402 students from second grade of MTsN 2 Pamulang. They are divided into 5 class types; regular class, Bina Prestasi class, Sains class, bilingual English class, and bilingual Arabic class. Table 5 The Distribution of Students No Class Students 1 8.1 38 2 8.2 38 3 8.3 39 4 8.4 37 5 8.5 37 6 8.6 36 7 8.7 38 8 8.8 Sains 38 9 8.9 Bilingual Arabic 38 10 8.10 Bilingual English 38 11 8.11 Bina Prestasi 25 Total 402 Because the population is heterogeneous, the writer took the sample about 10 from 402 students randomly. So the total of the students that are taken as the sample are 40 students.

5. Technique of Collecting the Data