FGD Focus Group Discussion Speaking Test

32 conduct the research with the subject teacher. Last, the researcher came to school and conducted the researcher from April 7, 2015 until May 4, 2015.

2. Distributing Questionnaire and Conducting FGD

In order to get the data of the students’ perception on their problems in mastering speaking skill, the researcher distributed the questionnaire in April 7, 2015. The questionnaire was distributed to 29 students who attended the class see Appendix 3. After distributing the questionnaire, the researcher asked 6 students to do FGD with her. Those respondents were selected based on the researcher ’s observation while teaching them during PPL. The selection was done by involving 2 students who always get higher score, 2 students in the middle, and 2 students in the lower score to meet the objective result.

3. Conducting the Pre-test

To measure the students’ ability in speaking before getting any treatment, the researcher conducted the pre-test. It was done in April 9, 2015. In the pre-test, the students had to individually make a brief persuasive speech about persuading their friends on the theme “students shouldshould not smoke in school area”. Their speech was assessed using speaking rubric see Appendix 5.

4. Treatment

The treatment was done 4 times from April 21, 2015 until April 30, 2015. The treatment was about the implementation of Scientific Approach in the process standard, especially on the teaching strategy see Appendix 2. The researcher gave the treatment to the students by giving opportunity to the students to practice 33 their speaking. The process of the treatment would be explained further in the Chapter IV using the result of the research er’s field notes see Appendix 10.

5. Conducting the Post-test

After conducting the pre-test, the researcher gave treatment to the students. The treatment was done by implementing Scientific Approach in KTSP. The final result of the treatment was measured by post-test. Similar to the pre-test, the students had to make a persuasive speech to persuade their friends on the theme “students shouldshould not smoke in school area”. The post-test was assessed by using the same rubric used to assess the pre-test see Appendix 6.

F. Data Analysis Technique

In this study, the researcher used 5 steps on the data gathering technique, which were questionnaire, FGD, pre-test, and post-test, and field notes.

1. Questionnaire

The questionnaire in this study is used a likert scale Ary, Jacob, Sorensen, 2006 which is also used by Ferianda, 2013 in his thesis. A likert scale is a topic in a form of statement and the respondent should choose whether they strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly disagree. The scoring technique will be presented on the following table: