RCA
Research questions
- Is critical thinking effective to be used in reading analytical exposition to the eleventh graders of SMAN 3 Sidoarjo?
- Is there any significant difference in students’ attitudes who are taught by using critical thinking in reading analytical exposition than who are not?
The two questions ask the same thing.
Instruments
It’s good that you mention the validity & reliability of the test,
but which type of validity & reliability are you going to use?
AFP
Scope and Limitation
This research is limited in
teaching using Exploration, Explanation and Expression method in [] graders
grammar classes. This research also only explains the implementation of the
method in teaching perfect tenses.
This is the scope rather than the limitation of the study.
Literature review
Each section consists of only 1 paragraph, so please elaborate.
Research design
It’s quantitative descriptive, but the first research question is
definitely qualitative.
Subjects of the study
How are you going to draw the sample, randomly or non- randomly?
Instruments
The main instrument is the writer
as a planner, observer, collector, and analyzer of the data. Other instruments
are check list, field note, students’ task result table, and questionnaire.
Why do you need a check list and field notes at the same time?
Students’ task result table is not an instrument.
References
It is empty.
IQA
Research questions
How is the students’
grammar(simple past tense) after the implementation of matching games?
What are you going to investigate, the students’ grammar mastery,
ability, or others?
Significane of the study
Will the students read your skripsi and get benefits from it?
Definition
- Game is ...
- Grammar is ...
- Simple past tense is ...
- Matching game is ...
Pay attention to the organization of the concepts you define. Start
from the most general concept.
Instruments
Observation checklist, students'
task, questionnaire.
Students’ task is not an instrument.
NES
Research questions
- Can note on Facebook improve the students’ ability in learning adjective and adverb in error recognition for twelfth graders of culinary class II in SMKN 2 Tuban?
- How are the students’ responses toward this media to motivate the students in learning adjective and adverb in error recognition for twelfth graders of culinary class II in SMKN 2 Tuban?
The first question is about improvement of their ability but the second
one is about their motivation.
Significance of the study
Will the students read your skripsi and get benefits from it?
Instruments
Test, observation, questionnaire,
field note, lesson plan.
Observation is the instrument, and field notes are what you make during
the observation.
A lesson plan is not a research instrument.
EDA
Significance of the Study
This study will also be beneficial to the students in learning to speak
effectively.
Will the students read your skripsi and get benefits from it?
Setting
Please explain more about the school, e.g. the location (downtown or in
the outskirt), the facilities, etc.
NF
Research questions
- How is the use of think pair share to teach reading news item text to the tenth graders of SMAN 1 Sidayu?
- How is the reading ability of the Tenth Graders in SMAN 1 Sidayu?
When are you going to find out their reading ability, before or after
the use of the technique?
Scope & limitation
The researcher limits her study only to the tenth graders of SMAN 1
Sidayu. It also doesn’t include the students’ activeness and understanding the
difficult vocabularies in the text.
Do these sentences express the scope or limitation of the study?
Definition of key terms
- Reading: one of most important skills in English learning.
- Think pair share technique: one of cooperative learning strategy which allows students to share their ideas with their partners.
- Cooperative learning: a number of strategies whereby students help one another acquire course content.
- News item text: a text which contains information
You need to find a better definition of ‘reading ’ and ‘news item text’.
Pay attention to the order of the terms. Start from the most general
concept. This also applies to the literature review:
2.1 Cooperative learning
2.2 The teaching of reading
2.3 Think Pair Share
2.4 News Item Text
Research design
It’s descriptive qualitative, but the second research question is
quantitative.
Research instruments:
observation sheet, students' task.
Students’ task is not an instrument.
NF
Sampling
The researcher will use
non-probability sampling; purposive sampling, IX-8 of SMPN 2 Sidoarjo consists
of 35 students. IX-8 will be chosen as the experimental group due to the low
mean in the listening test and the control group will be IX-4 due to the highest
mean in the listening test.
Experimental & control groups should have equal ability & the
means of their scores should not be significantly different. If
one has a low mean and the other has a higher mean, you have to draw another
sample.
Instrument
Can the results of a questionnaire be analysed using t-test?
LC
Research questions
- Is there any difference of students’ listening strategy between the students with high and low listening comprehension before the use of cooperative listening to improve tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Porong?
- Is there any relationship between the implementation of cooperative listening and listening comprehension improvement of tenth grade students in SMAN 1 Porong?
- How is students’ respond toward the implementation of cooperative listening to improve tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Porong?
What’s the purpose of asking question no 1?
How are you going to measure the relationship between the
implementation of X and the improvement of Y? To measure the relationship, you
must have two sets of scores.
Hypothesis
- There is difference of students’ listening strategy between the students with high and low listening comprehension before the use of cooperative listening among tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Porong.
- There is relationship between the implementation of cooperative listening and listening comprehension improvement of tenth grade students in SMAN 1 Porong.
- Students show a positive respond toward the implementation of cooperative listening to improve tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Porong.
The plural form of ‘hypothesis’ is ‘hypotheses’.
Only question no 1 & 2 need a hypothesis.
Definition
Cooperative Listening: Kinds of
teaching technique.
This definition is too general, please specify what kind of teaching
technique it is.
Research design
It’s stated your research is descriptive quantitative, i.e. correlational
study. However, you also wrote that:
This study consists of three
phases including the pre-test, treatment and post-test.
This is the characteristic of an experimental design.
Instruments
3.4.1.1 Validity
Because the test is objctive. The
validity will be measured by using Kuder Richardson 21 formula.
3.4.1.2 Reliability
To measure the reliability,
researcher will use split – half formula.
Both KR21 and split-half are used to measure the reliability of the
test. To estimate the validity of test, you can use content, criterion-related
or construct validity.
Data analysis
The test will be analyzed
statistically by computing the Pearson product moment.
This formula is used in correlation. How are you going to analyze the
results of the pretest and the posttest?