QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH IN LANGUAGE EDUCATION

THE EEFECT OF USING PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING (PBL) IN TEACHING

WRITING TO TENTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMAN 2 JEMBER

THESIS PROPOSAL

By :
Muhammad 'Abduh Al Karim
170210401004

ENGLISH EDUCATION PROGRAM

LANGUAGE AND ARTS DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF JEMBER
2019
 CHAPTER III
RESEARCH METHOD

This chapter discusses the research method in this study. It covers

discussion about research design, subject of the study, data and data source, data collecting
technique and instrument, technique of data verification, and data analysis.

3.1 The Research Design

Based on the research objectives, in line with the use of Problem Based Learning
(PBL) in teaching writing at Senior High School. This research was conducted based on
the principle of experimental research. According to Sugiyono (2006:80), experimental
research is a research which has the purpose to find the cause-effect relationship among
variables in a controlled condition. The essential feature of experimental research is that
investigators deliberately control and manipulate the conditions which determine the
events, in which they are interested, introduce an intervention and measure the difference
that it makes.
This study classified in to experimental research that use one group pre test and post
test design. In the one group pre-test and post-test design, a single group is measured or
observed not only after being exposed to a treatment of some sort, but also before it by
applying pre-test. A pre-test provides a measure on some attribute or characteristic that the
researcherasses for participants in an experiment before the group receive a treatment,
while a post-test measure on some attribute or characteristic that is assessed for participants
in an experiment after a treatment (Creswell, 2008:301).
The teacher as the researcher should make inference from reflection of the
teaching writing to identify the difficulty of writing context in the meeting. Therefore, the
ongoing improvement of teaching writing will be achieved and then the students ‘writing
comprehension also can be improved.

3.2 The Research Procedure

The procedures of pre-experimental research that use one-group pre-test and post-
test design in this study are described as follows:

Administering a pre- Administering a pre-

test (Y1) test (Y1)

Applying the experimental

treatment (X)
1. Administering a pre-test (Y1) with a purpose of measuring writing ability of first grade
students at SMAN 2 Jember before applying treatment.
2. Applying the experimental treatment (X) teaching writing ability by using alphabet
soup game to the first grade students at SMAN 2 Jember.
3. Administering a post-test (Y2) with a purpose of measuring writing ability of first
grade students at SMAN 2 Jember after applying treatment.

In this research, the researcher use experimental research with quantitative

approach. The researcher wants to know the effectiveness of using PBL towards writing
ability of the first grade.

3.3 The Research Context

The researcher will conduct the research at SMAN 2 Jember, because there is
problem with the student's writing comprehension. The research will use Problem Based
Learning (PBL) to improve their writing comprehension.

3.4 The Research Participant

In this research, the researcher collaborated with the tenth grade students and
English teacher of SMAN 2 Jember in order to get objective data about the development of
the tenth grade students writing comprehension. The researcher and the teacher taught the
students by using Problem Based Learning (PBL). Both of teacher and researcher became
the observers in the class. Hence, the researcher also gave suggestion to the teacher about
the method, instructional information, teaching material, and learning assessment applied in
the seventh grade of SMAN 2 Jember.