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CHAPTER III METHOD OF RESEARCH
3.1 Research Design
This research is descriptive qualitative research. Social research using descriptive qualitative form has a purpose to describe, summarize every condition,
every situation, or every phenomenon of social reality among the people which become the object of the research, and try to draw the reality to the surface as a
feature, characteristic, model, sign, or image about condition, situation, or certain phenomenon. As quoted from Bungin:
Penelitian sosial menggunakan format deskriptif kualitatif bertujuan untuk menggambarkan, meringkaskan berbagai kondisi,
berbagai situasi, atau berbagai fenomena realitas sosial yang ada di masyarakat yang menjadi objek penelitian, dan berupaya
menarik realitas itu ke permukaan sebagai suatu ciri, karakter, sifat, model, tanda, atau gambaran tentang kondisi situasi, ataupun
fenomena tertentu. Bungin, 2007:68
3.2 Data and Sources of Data
The source of the data for this analysis are first, Coco Simon’s novel Cupcake Diaries 2: Mia in the Mix, second, the Indonesian translation of this novel by Ruth
Linda Cupcake Diaries 2: Mia dan Cupcake Galau, third, Andrea Hirata’s novel Laskar Pelangi and fourth, the English translation of the novel by Angie The
Rainbow Troops. Cupcake Diaries 2: Mia in the Mix contains 18 chapters and consist of 146
pages. The Indonesian translation contains 18 chapters and consists of 139 pages. Meanwhile, Laskar Pelangi contains 34 chapters and consists of 494 pages. The
English translation contains 34 chapters and consists of pages. The writer takes
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random sampling means techniques that involve an unsystematic random selection process. Basically, simple random sampling involves identifying every element in
the sampling frame and choosing them on the basis of any planned process that also ensures that every element has an equal opportunity of being selected Dane,
1990:297. In this analysis the writer chooses to analyze 2 chapters for each novel, they are chapter 1 and chapter 2.
Newmark 1988:81 said that translation procedures techniques are used for sentences and the smaller units of language.
So, the data for this analysis are first, every word and sentence in chapter 1 and chapter 2 of novel Cupcake Diaries 2: Mia
in the Mix, second, every word and sentence in chapter 1 and chapter 2 of the Indonesian translation of the novel, Cupcake Diaries 2: Mia dan Cupcake Galau,
third, every word and sentence in chapter 1 and chapter 2 of novel Laskar Pelangi and fourth, every word and sentence in chapter 1 and chapter 2 of the English
translation of the novel, The Rainbow Troops.
3.3 Data Collection Procedures