Setting of the Research

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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD

A. Setting of the Research

This study was carried out in SMP Negeri 2 Sumberlawang. It is located in Jati village, Sumberlawang District, Sragen Regency, Central Java. The phone number is 02717007078. The e-mail is smpn2.sumberawanggmail.net . The blog that can be accessed is blog.smpn2sumberlawang. The school is located in the north part of Sragen regency, about three kms away from Sumberlawang district, so it is quite far to be reached by people from the city. SMP Negeri 2 Sumberlawang is a National Standard School SSN. It began in 2009. There are thirty three teachers and five administration staffs. Fourteen teachers have been certified as professional teachers but only few have joined the workshop on Classroom Action Research. The facilities are teachers’ office, headmaster’s office, administrators’ office, one small library with not more than 5000 books. It has a mosque, a science laboratory, a computer laboratory, an electronic laboratory, two canteens, one student’s health unit, a counseling room, 8 toilets, sport hall, parking area, a large yard with several trees around it. It has not language laboratory yet. The school is surrounded by fence of about two meters height. There are farming area in the back, front and right side of the school. There are four hundred seventy three students in school. There are about thirty six to forty commit to user 53 tables and chairs in the classroom and some cleaning service facilities. The class uses blackboard to write. The students parents are various. 70.57 students’ parents are farming employees, 10.54 are merchants, 16.4 are businessmen, 1.03 are army and policemen, 0.83 are village office staffs and 0.4 are government officers. Some students dont live with their parents but they live with their grandparents or their relatives. Their parents are working in a big city like Jakarta and Surabaya. Most of students parents are living in the low economy condition. It is proved that many of the students parents have poor identity card PIC. The awareness of the students parents around the school about the students learning in school is still low. More than 60 of the graduated students did not continue to study at the higher level. They prefer to work or to get instant skill like having a sewing course. The research was carried out for about 6 months. The following is the time schedule in which the writer carried out the research. Table4. Research schedule No Activities Time Estimation 1 Pre- Research September 2010 2 Designing Proposal October 2010 3 Developing Instrument December 2010 4 Research Implementation January 2011 commit to user 54 5 Collecting and Analyzing Data January -Feb 2011 6 Writing Report February 2011 7 Examination July 2011 8 Submitting the Thesis Document July 2011

B. Research Subject