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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This chapter presents the description of the research method used in this study, including place and time of the research, method of research, research subject, research instrument, checking of instrument validity and the technique of data analysis.

A. Place and Time of Research

This research was held at Yayasan Pendidikan An-Nurmaniyah SMP YAPERA or SMP An-Nurmaniyah which is located at Jl. Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo Jln. H. Mencong No. 62 Paninggilan Utara-Ciledug. The writer makes the proposal on 22 may 2013 and began an observation until 27 March 2014. Before doing the research, fristly the writer observed the location and population where the research carried out. Then, she observed the English teaching learning activity and she watched the method that used by the English teacher about tenses expecially in learning simple present tense, simple continous tense and simple past tense. Finally, the writer gave short answer question test in order to get the data and to analyze the most common students’ error in using tenses simple present tense, simple present continuous tense and simple past tense.

B. Method of Research

This method of research used the descriptive qualitative as the method to analyze the students’ error in the use of tenses which are commonly made. The analysis involves, firstly, collecting the data of the students test to find out the errors. The second step is the identification of student’s error in the use of tenses simple present tense, simple present continuous tense and simple past tense. The next step is the classification of the error, this step is when the errors of the use tenses into some categories omission, addition, misformation, and misorder. The next step is the explanation of the errors which the errors of tenses are going to be evaluated and found out its sources. The last is the evaluation after description of the errors and explain why the errors happened.

C. Research Subject

There are eight classes of the second grade students of SMP YAPERA An- Nurmaniyah which consists of 28-30 students in every class. The writer used a Random Sampling technique to get the representative data. By the Purposive Sampling technique, the writer only took one of among the classes. She took VIII-6 class which the students are 28 people. She gave the test which the focus is using tenses, particularly the tenses are simple present tense, simple present continuous tense and simple past tense.

D. Research Instrument