CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Place and Time of the Research
This research was conducted at the seventh grade students of SMP N 2 Karangmalang in the academic year of 20132014. This school is chosen
because the problem of writing was found in this school.
Table 3.1 Time Schedule of Research Activities
Time
Writing research proposal Jun - Nov 2012
Conducting proposal seminar Mar 2013
Developing research instrument Apr 2013 - Mar 2014
Giving treatment and collecting data Apr - May 2014
Discussing the data analysis Jun 2014
– Mar 2015 Writing research report
Apr 2015 – Oct 2016
Thesis examination Nov 2016
B. Research Method
Research is about inquiry that has systematic processes: a question, problem, or hypothesis, data and analysis of the data Nunan, 1992: 2.
Furthermore, Tuckman 1978: 1 states that research is a systematic attempt to provide answers to questions. The research method used in this research is
experimental study. Experimental study is a kind of research to know the possibility of cause and effect relationship by giving treatment on
experimental class and see its difference after the treatment. Ary, et. al. 2007: 337 state that experimental research is usually
regarded as the most sophisticated research method to test the hypothesis.
This method starts with a question about the relationship between two variables or more. This experimental study involves three kinds of variables.
They are independent variable, dependent variable, and moderator variable. Fraenkel and Wallen 1993: 242 state that independent variable is the
variable that the researchers systematically manipulate in the experiment to establish cause
–and–effect relationship between variables .
The independent variable in this research is the teaching methods. They are Guided Imagery
and Direct Instruction. The second variable is dependent variable. It is the factor which is
observed and measured to determine the effect of the independent variable. The dependent variable in this research is writing skill of the seventh grade
students. The third variable is moderator variable. The moderator variable is a
kind of variable that given different name based on the point of view. According to Tuckman 1978: 63, moderator variable is the factor which is
measured by the experimenter to discover whether it modifies the relationship of the independent variable to an observed phenomenon.
The moderator variab
le in this research is students’ creativity.
C. Variables and Research Design
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