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conducted without using composite pictures. The duration of each meeting is 80 minutes.
5 Giving writing Post-test to the experimental group and the control group to measure the s
tudents’ recount paragraph writing achievement. 6 Analyzing the result of the post test by using t-test formula of 5 significant
level to know the mean difference of both groups. Then the result of post test will be compared to know whether or not there is an effect of using composite
pictures on a recount paragraph writing achievement on the eighth grade students at SMPN 4 Jember.
7 Making a conclusion from the result of the analysis to answer the research problem.
3.2 The Area Determination Method
Area determination method is one of the methods which is important to be determined before the researcher undertakes the research. Purposive method could
be used to determine the research area based on certain purpose. The research was conducted at SMPN 4 Jember by using purposive method.
There were three reasons why this school is purposively chosen. The first reason is based on the interview with the English teacher that teaching writing a
recount paragraph by using composite pictures has never been applied in this school by the English teacher of the Eighth grade students. The second reason is
the research about the effect of using composite pictures in a recount paragraph writing achievement has never been conducted at this school. The third reason is
that the Principal and the teacher gave permission to conduct a research in this school. Besides, they wanted to know whether or not teaching writing a recount
paragraph by using composite pictures really could give a significant effect to the students’ recount paragraph writing achievement.
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3.3 The Respondent Determination Method
Respondents are the sample of population. Arikunto 1998:102 states that respondent is a person who gives responses and answers to the questions given by
the researcher orally or in a written form. The research populations in this research were the eighth grade student of SMPN 4 Jember in the 20142015
academic year. The eighth grade students of SMPN 4 Jember area are divided into seven classes VIII A, VIII B, VIII C, VIII D, VIII E, VIII F, VIII G. Two of
seven classes were selected as the experimental group and the control group by using cluster sampling method.
The respondents of this research were taken by using cluster sampling after the researcher analyzed
the students’ writing score from the teacher by using ANOVA formula. Since the populations were homogeneous, the experimental
group and the control group were determined by lottery.
3.4 The Operational Definition of the Terms
