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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. The Objective of the Study
The objective of the study is to know whether or not the reading passages of the English textbook “English in Focus” written by Artono Wardiman,
Masduki B. Jahur, and M. Sukirman Djusma published by National Education Department are in line with the School Based Curriculum in terms of the genre
and its characteristics.
B. The Object of the Study
The object of the study is the genre of reading passages in an English textbook which is used by third grade of Junior High School in learning English.
The title of this English textbook is “English in Focus” written by Artono
Wardiman, Masduki B. Jahur, and M. Sukirman Djusma and it is published by National Education Department. This textbook is a handbook for student to learn
English.
C. Method of the Study
The design of this study is content analysis because this study aimed to describe and to analyze the genre of reading passages in the textbook used as a
handbook for students in Junior High School which have the title “English in
Focus” in the term of genre and its characteristics. The method used is the descriptive method. This study consists of the description and analysis of genre on
reading passages based on the demand of reading of School Based Curriculum for the third year in Junior High School in the term of genre of reading passages and
the characteristic of each genre.
D. Instrument
The instrument of the research is a worksheet which is designed by Mark Anderson Kathy Anderson. It describes the genre and its characteristics
according to the School-Based Curriculum, those are social function, generic structure and grammatical features.
E. Technique of Data Collection
The researcher used document as her main source of data to be analyzed, the document is the textbook which is used by the teacher to teach English at
school. Creswell says that document is valuable information used in qualitative research which consists of public and private records that the researcher obtains
about a site or participants in a study.
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The writer analyzed it because she wants to know whether or not the reading passages in the textbook which would be
analyzed are suitable with the demand of the school-based curriculum in terms of the genre and the features of each genre. In the textbook, there are some reading
passages which are used by the teacher to teach reading skill. The researcher took all of reading passages in the textbook to be analyzed.
F. Technique of Data Analysis
In analyzing the data, the researcher analyzed the reading passages in the textbook by using documentary analysis because the research only used a
textbook and the curriculum as the document that will be analyzed. The researcher did some steps as follows:
1. Firstly, the researcher design a worksheet that would evaluate whether the reading passages on the textbook has all characteristics of genre
2. The reading passages are evaluated by checklist sign
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3. After all reading passages are evaluated by analyzing the characteristic of each genre, the researcher determines the genres of the reading passages and
compare them to the genres in the school based curriculum 4. The evaluated data are interpreted
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