The Nature of Research

C. Data Collection Technique

The key of this instrument of this research was the researcher. In conducting this study, the researcher used the following instruments; observation and interview. 1. Observation According to Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, observation is the act of watching something carefully for a period of time, especially to learn. The researcher observed the process of teaching and learning done by the teachers. The observations not only done in the teaching and learning process but also in every activity happen in the schools. 2. Interview This interview is intended to follow up and ferity the previous of research instrument to gain the further information. The interview is in the form of semi-structured interview. It means that the researcher, indeed, has guidelines of the question but there might be any possible and unpredictable questions which occur to dig out more information from interviewees. Burns in Setiyadi 2006 states that the advantage of this type of interview is enabling t he interviewee’s as well as the interviewee’s perspective to inform the research agenda and therefore give rise to a more equal balance in the research relationship. The interview section was conducted in Bahasa Indonesia for making the respondents comfortable in expressing their opinions. Thus, the respondents gave elaborated as much information as possible. To find out the data related to the implementation of the teaching and learning process based on Curriculum 2013 at SMP 18 Kebonarum and SMP N 2 WEDI, the researcher come to the school to conduct observations, note taking and interviews with the English teacher and the students. The activities ended when the data were enough. The observations were conducted in the school on July- September 2015. During the observations, the researcher took notes on important aspect found that would become the research focuses later on since the researcher did not come to the field with the hypothesis. The researcher then determined some focuses and used as the basic to develop some new focuses based on the data got from observations which were in the form of notes written as soon as getting information needed. Getting focuses on hand, the researcher then explored the focused trough in- depth interviews with the English teacher and the students. Conducting After conducting the observations and interviews, the researcher then composed the interview transcripts and categorized the collected data until the researchers were sure with the categorization. Next, the researcher tried to formulate descriptions and judgments from selected focuses and categories formulated them in the form of essay and completed it with supportive or objective explanations.