CHAPTER III

RESEARCH METHOD
A. Research Design
This research is categorized into descriptive qualitative research
because it is aimed at describing how the teachers performed applying
teaching and learning prosess and what activities the students in the classroom
especially in written cycle though Genre Based Approach at Junior High
School 9 Solok Selatan. So, that the research was designed as qualitative
research, as Gay (2000: 16) describes that qualitative research seeks to probe
deeply into the research setting in order to obtain understanding about the way
things are, why they are that way and how the participants in the context
perceive them.
In this research the writer did a case study about the problems
happening at Junior High School 9 Solok Selatan and this desciptive study is
done to investigate teachers technique in teaching writing and teachers
technique in evaluating students writing product . Specifically showing how
the implementation Genre Based Approach in teaching written cycle
especially desciptive text.
B. Subject of the Study
The subject of this study is English teacher who has been involved in
English Language Teaching at Junior High School 9 Solok Selatan in
academic year 2012/2013. Actually, there are two English teachers and they
are characterized as follow: (1) Certification; one teacher has followed
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certification and the others have not followed yet, (2) Experience; one teacher
has spent her time for about 18 years in teaching, another has taught
approximately 2 years (3) Rank; one of them is 4 A, and the others are 3 A.
From the two teachers, the researcher was interested to observe a
teacher who has spent her time for about 2 years in teaching .the English
teacher have been teaching in Junior High School 9 Solok Selatan since
Januari 10th 2010. She was gradueted from one of University in Padang on
2006.
This selected teacher teaches in 3 classes, i.e.VIII1, VIII2, and VIII3.
Yet among them, the researcher was attracted to select VIII2.
C. Instrumentation
The instruments which are used in this research focuses on the data
that are needed to be collected. The collected data will be used to explain the
real condition of the process of teaching and learning of English especially in
teaching and learning process of writing. There were three instruments that
had been used in this research. They are as follows:
1. Observation Sheet
This observation was used to collect the data on teaching and
learning prosess in the class. In the observation, the researcher observed the
process of teaching and learning of writing from the beginning to the end of
the activities, Observation of participant in the context of a natural setting.
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activities, people, and meanings of what is observe from the perspective of

the participants. The data, then, were confirmed and categorized.
The researcher also used interviewed in this research. This
interview was used to confirm the abnormal observed fact during the
process of teaching writing.
2. Documentation
This documentation is used to help the researcher in conducting the
research. The researcher will take the format used by the English teacher to
evaluate students writing and criterion use to assess students writing
product.
D. Techniques of Data Collection
The data were collected through the observation of the teachersrs
technique in teaching writing in the classroom. The researcher monitor the
teacher, whether he or she was able to bring the students to true language
learning principles and to involved all significant points such as: social
context, shared experience, control of relevant vocabulary and grammatical
patterns maximally or not yet.
After doing observation, the data also was gained through interview.
This interview was aimed to confirmed the unstatiesfying items from the
observation.
The researcher also collected the data through document analysis. In
this case, the researcher wanted to know how the English teacher evaluated the
students writing score and what the format that used by the English teacher.
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1. Observation
The each item from the observation would be categorized into there
as below:
a. 1 : Low
b. 2 : Average
c. 3 : Good
Next, the data would be totalized and analyzed each stage in
observation result would be calculated in order to get the mean score.
Then, all of the scores for the each stage would be calculated. Finally, the
researcher found the quality of teaching stage carried out by the English
teacher.
2. Documentation
From documentation the researcher would analyze the evaluation
technique used by the English teacher in evaluating students writing
product. Whether from the book mark or from the students writing sheet.