3. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research Method
There are two ways of making a scientific study : Library research and field research. The former means that one collects the data from book, journal, magazine or other
written sources from libraries. While the latter is done by asking such designed- question to a certain group of people in collecting the data with a questionnaire, doing one or more
experiments, or taking direct observation to the object being analyzed. In this analysis, the writer will use the descriptive research, in which it used to identify and classify the
elements or characteristics of the object, as it is considered the most applicable one for this kind of research.
In addition to this, the writer will use textual approach, by which is meant that the writer will first read the text and the references which support. The thesis, and then makes
the study from her understanding of those readings. Besides, the writer will also prefer the quantitative approach. Quantitative approach is techniques are most often used to collect,
analyze , summarize and also percentage of the data.
3.2 The Source of the Data
The data is idioms. The idioms were taken from the texts in the Reader’s Digest magazine February edition 2013. The unorganized mass of linguistics data that were
collected by the writer from the text of Reader’s Digest magazine are the idioms used in it. The writer considered the availability of the sentences where all the data involve in.
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3.3 Collecting of the Data
The very important thing to do in every study including linguistics study is collecting the data that can be found and related to the object of the study. Seeing from the
topic which concerns with the use of idioms in Reader’s Digest magazines, the data are the whole idioms collected directly from the text in the Reader’s Digest magazine as stated
previously. The writer applied the linguistic study with the purpose to get the data. The
technique that was taken by the writer to be used was collecting texts method. In order to get the data, the writer first read the Reader’s Digest magazine. Each sentence in the text
was examined. The sentences containing idioms were collected as data
3.4 Analysis of Data
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