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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

In this chapter, the researcher will discuss how the study will be conducted. It provides deeper information how to gather the data and analyze the data to answer the research problems. This chapter consists of six parts namely research method, research setting, research participants, instruments and data gathering technique, data analysis technique, and research procedure.

3.1 Research Method

This study belongs to survey research in which the researcher uses it to answer the research problems. According to Frankel and Wallen 1998: 389, survey research is a study which enables the researcher to collect the information from a group of people to describe abilities, opinions, attitudes, beliefs, and or knowledge. Survey research collects the information through asking questions which can be presented in the questionnaires and interviews. The advantage of survey research is that the data can be collected in short time. Besides, survey research is conducted for problem solving rather than hypothesis testing. Furthermore, to analyze the results of the research, the researcher used qualitative and quantitative research. For most of the data instruments, this study used qualitative research in which the researcher used survey research to conduct the research. Quantitative research was used in analyzing the data of the research. This research also used numerical data to be analyzed. Moreover, in this study, the 32 research was conducted to find out the students’ perceptions on the use of mind mapping to develop their organization of ideas in speaking and the implications of the findings. The questionnaires and interviews were employed in order to obtain the students’ perceptions.

3.2 Research Setting

To conduct the research, the writer collected the data at SMP Negeri 2 Sedayu. This school is a junior high school and it is a public school. This school is located in Sedayu, Bantul, Yogyakarta. The research was conducted during May 1, 2013 till May 18, 2013 in which the students were in the second semester of academic year 20122013.

3.3 Research Participants

The research participants of this study were the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 2 Sedayu. In this school, eighth grade students were divided into five classes. The numbers of students of VIII A were 24, VIII B were 27, VIII C were 22, VIII D were 25, and VIII E were 24. For this research, the researcher used purposive sampling. The researcher chose deliberately two classes from all of the classes. According to Backstrom and Cesar 1981: 65, in purposive sampling, the researcher chooses the respondents deliberately, by knowing the type of people they are or where they are located. It also may be appropriate for the researcher to select his sample on the basis of his own knowledge of the population, its 33 elements and the nature of his research Babbie, 1973, p. 106. The researcher chose class VIII C and VIII D as the representative classes for the reason that VIII C had the higher average achievement in English subject and VIII D had the lowest average achievement in English subject. The researcher wanted to compare the results of the research from those classes. Besides, the researcher also wanted to helped the students of class VIII D to improve their average achievement in English subject through this research.

3.4 Instruments and Data Gathering Technique