data of research the writer made observation at school and fixed population and sample for her research. After that the writer collected data with giving a
test. The writer examined the test and gave score. Next, the writer made interview with students who got bad and good score to know why they face
difficulties in using regular and irregular verb.
D. Population and Sample
In Encyclopedia of Educational Evaluation stated: Population is a set or collectionof all elements processing one or
more attributes of interest.
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The population is the entire group of individuals that wanted
information about. Population in this study is all of the class VII, they are 16 students.
Sample is a part of the population of interest, a sub-collection selected from a population. A good sample is a sample which reflects maximal
population. At the beginning of the research, the writer wanted to take all
population as sample because the total students of second grade only 16 but unfortunately the students who absented are 4 so she took 12 students as the
sample or 75 of population.
E. Techniques of Collecting Data
There were three techniques of collecting data applied in this study; they were observation, test and interview.
1. Observation
It is the main technique in collecting data about learning English in the classroom. In this case, the researcher acted as an observer who observed the
teaching learning process without being involved in the process. Therefore, this technique can be categorized as non-participant
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The writer did the research by teaching the material in the class VIII and explained about Regular and Irregular Verb.
2. Test
For Test, The writer gave test to students to know which more dominant frequency of difficulty in using irregular verb or regular verb is, the
writer wrote 20 questions about regular and irregular verb with 5 items for past tense of irregular verb, 5 items for past participle of irregular verb, 5
items for past tense of regular verb and 5 items for past participle of regular verb.
TABLE 3.1 NUMBER OF ITEMS OF REGULAR AND IRREGULAR VERB
3. Interview
And the last is interview; an interview is a conversation between two
or more people where questions are asked by the interviewer to obtain information from the interviewee. It used as supplement of the data needed
which are not covered by observation technique and test, such as the reason why the students find the difficulties in learning regular and irregular verb.
Therefore, this interview is also used to convince the researcher about the data gained through other technique. The interview technique is the form of semi-
structured held the technique by utilizing the interview guide containing the
NO REGULAR AND IRREGULAR VERB
Number of
Item
1 REGULAR VERB
a. Past Tense b. Past Participle
5 5
2 IREGULAR VERB
a. Past Tense b. Past Participle
5 5
TOTAL 20
TEMS
main points as the objective of researcher. This interview was done to collect data by means of dialog directly, with informants who consist of 6 students of
second grade who got bad score.
F. Technique of Data Analysis
