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METHODOLOGY
This section presents brief explanation of context of the study, participants, instrument of research, procedure of data collection, and procedure of data
analysis.
A. The Context of Study
This study is conducted in EFL context, more specifically in Banyubiru Junior High school in Central Java province, Indonesia. The school itself is located
in rural area, where Indonesia and Javanese language are used as daily language. Therefore, most of the participants in this research use Javanese language and
Indonesian language as their first language and rarely use English language as language in daily conversation. However, the school demands the students to
achieve particular goals in English course because English course has been considered as one important course in Indonesia. In fact, the use of English
language is rarely expo sed to students’ daily life. This causes students possess little
knowledge of English language. As the result, this demand creates problematic situation and great burden for students in learning English due to the lack
knowledge of English language. The r
eason I choose this school as my context of study is due to students’ problem in vocabulary knowledge. To deal with this problem, vocabulary pre-
teaching was frequently used in reading classes in attempt to increase students’ vocabulary knowledge as well as to increase comprehension in reading. Due to this
situation, I am interested to seek students’ views on discussion of vocabulary aspects on their reading comprehension.
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B. Participants
The study involved 54 participants who were all students from Banyubiru Junior High school. All of them are 8
th
grade students with the average age of the students is 13.
C. Instruments of Research
The instruments that were used in this study are classroom observation, questionnaires, and interview. The classroom observation was done to find out RVI
aspects that were mostly used in reading class. The observation was done with six times observation. Later, the result of this observation was used to answer research
question number 1 which seeks RVI aspects that are mostly used in reading class. The second instrument is questionnaire. It was used to answer research question
number 2 and 3 about students’ views on the use of RVI on their reading comprehension. The questionnaire itself was consisting two parts that were
separated in different pages. The first page was a table about list of 4 RVI aspects that were mostly used in reading classes with explanation of teaching techniques
that were used to explain each aspect. The second page is a form that asked students to rank their preference about the aspects and state the reason based on its influence
to their reading comprehension. The last instrument was interview. Interview was conducted to collect further
data from participants’ answers. The interview itself was conducted in Indonesia language for the purpose to give the participants freedom to express their thoughts
and feelings without having bounded with English language. In the practice, 5 students were involved to be representative of the participants. The interview was
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done in 3 days, one week after questionnaire is conducted. Due to its aim to collect further data, the questions about each aspect of RVI were involved in this interview.
D. Data Collection Procedure
