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c. To collect data
d. To analyze data
e. To interpret the strengths and direction
6. Constructing the research instruments Questionnaire and Reading
Comprehension Achievement Test. 7.
Conducting the try out to get the reliability of the test. 8.
Collecting the data by administering reading comprehension achievement test and distributing the questionnaire to the research respondents.
9. Analyzing the results of the questionnaire and reading comprehension test
by using Statistical Computation Spearman Rank Order Correlation. 10.
Verifying the research hyphotheses based on the results of the data analysis.
11. Drawing conclusion based on he result of the data analysis to answer the
research problem. 12.
Composing the research report.
3.2 Area Determination Method
Area determination method is a method to determine area or place where the research will be conducted. In line with this explanation, Frankel et.al 2012:
100 point out that if the researchers assume that they can use their personal knowledge of the population to judge whether or not a particular sample will be
representative, it is called purposive method. The area determination method in this research was done purposively by choosing SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Jember.
This purposive method was employed by the researcher because of certain reasons. First, researcher was permitted by the Headmaster of SMA
Muhammadiyah 3 Jember to conduct the correlational research. Second, the English teacher gave permission to know whether or not there is relationship
between attitude towards learning English and reading comprehension achievement of the grade XI Bahasa 1 students. Last, students in Language class
should have strong willingness to study language including English. As a result, the
students’ in Language class might have positive attitude in learning English.
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3.3 Respondent Determination Method
McMillan 1992:68 states “a subject is an individual who participates in a research study or in someone from whom data are collected.” It means that subject
or respondents are the one who give response to the researcher’s question either
written or oral form. Determining the research respondents of the research was an important part in such a research because the respondents were the main source in
getting the data. Purposive sampling was used to determine the research respondent.
3.3.1 Population
Population is a group or cases individuals, object, or event that correspond to the particular criteria to which to generalize the result of the
research McMillan, 1996:85. The population of this research was the eleventh grade students at SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Jember in the 20152016 academic
year. There are 10 classes of the eleventh grade students in SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Jember. There are XI Bahasa 1, XI Bahasa 2, XI IPA 1, XI IPA 2, XI IPA 3, XI
IPA 4, XI IPS 1, XI IPS 2, XI IPS 3, and XI IPS 4. 3.3.2
Sample Fraenkel et al. 2012:91 define sample is the group in which the
information obtained. This process was usually done to limit the respondents. This research used purposive sampling. According to Mc Millan 1992:76 purposive
sampling, the researcher selects particular elements from the population that will be representative or informative about the topic. In this research, the researcher
chose the grade XI Bahasa 1 class which consists of 25 students as the research respondents. see appendix E
Moreover, class XI Bahasa 1 was chosen purposively as the respondents of the research. The teacher suggested and gave permission to the researcher to
conduct a research only in the grade XI Bahasa 1 because he said that the students in Language class get more meetings on such English lesson such as literature.
There are two meetings of literature class in a week. As a result, students in Language class might give a better result on reading comprehension achievement
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compare with other class Science and Social class. Besides, students in Language class should have strong willingness to study language including
English. It can be said that students’ in Language class might have positive attitude in learning English. Further, the teacher said that in Bahasa 1, students are
varies in terms of following the teacher explanation compares to the other Language class. So, instead of XI Bahasa 2, the researcher chose XI Bahasa 1 as
research respondents.
3.4 Operational Definition of the Key Terms
