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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Setting of the Study
The setting of the study was at MTs NW 1 Kembang Kerang, located at Kembang Kerang village, Aikmel district, East Lombok regency. MTs NW 1
Kembang Kerang was built in 1987. MTs NW 1 Kembang Kerang geographically, is located in a strategic place. It is not difficult to get to the
school by any means of transportation because it is near the regency street. MTs NW 1 Kembang Kerang is one of the private Islamic high schools which got A in
accreditation from Ministry Office of National Education, Institution of National Accreditation BAN of West Nusa Tenggara Province.
In conducting this research, the researcher was assisted by collaborator. The research was conducted from January 2011 up to June 201, the schedule is
as follows: Table 1
No Activities
Jan 2011
Feb 2011
Mar 2011
Apr 2011
Mei 2011
June 2011
1 Preliminary
ü 2
Writing proposal ü
ü ü
3
Conducting research
ü ü
4 Writing Report
ü ü
ü ü
B. Subject of the study
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Because of the limited time and finance, the research was conducted to the students of Class IX A MTs NW 1 Kembang Kerang. Class IX A consists of 32
students and all of them are boys. Most students 90 are from Kembang Kerang village and 10 are from out of the village. Those who come from out
of the village, usually stay in an Islamic boarding house which is near the school. The students come from different social and economics background.
Most of them came from poor and low social status families. According to the previous teacher, most students did the task when the
teacher asked them although the result of their task was still far from the teachers’ expectation. It can be seen from the result of the pre-test given. Based
on the students’ test achievement, this class is categorized into low achievers among the other classes. In this case the researcher chooses Class IX A due to
the fact that the problem faced by this class was writing problem. They got many difficulties in writing such as generating ideas, arranging sentences, organizing
sentences, having lack of vocabulary, and making coherence. That is why the researcher takes a classroom action research in order to solve the problems.
C. Research Method