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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

This chapter deals with the methodology that the researcher employed in the study. It is divided into six sections. Those sections are research method, research setting, research participants, instruments and data gathering technique, data analysis technique, and research procedure.

A. Research Method

This study investigated the perception of the English Language Education Study Program students on reading habit formation in Book Report Course. It belongs to mixed method research. Ary et al. 2006 state that mixed method research combines qualitative and quantitative approaches in a single study. The mixing process may occur in the data collection, methodology, the specified method, the logistic of the design, and the analysis. Related to this study, the mixing process occurs in the data collections which are the questionnaires and the interviews. The purpose of mixed method research is to expand the breadth or depth of the study. In order to answer the research problems, the researcher employed survey method. It permits the researcher to measure the characteristics of the groups’ attitude and opinions toward some issues Ary et al., 2006: p. 28. Employing the survey method, the researcher could measure the characteristics of the students ’ opinions in Book Report Course. 29 The data were gathered by asking questions to Book Report Course students. The data were about students’ perception on Book Report Course related to learning activities and the reading problems faced by the students in taking the course. The data of the study were gathered through the questionnaires and the interviews as the instruments. As Ary et al. 2006: p. 28 state that “survey research uses intruments such as questionnaires and interviews to gather information from groups of individuals. ”

B. Research Setting

The study took place at Sanata Dharma University Yogyakarta, to be exact at the English Language Education Study Program. The study was conducted in class C and D of Book Report Course. The researcher distributed the questionnaires in Book Report Course classes during the even semester of 20122013 academic year. It was on December 3 rd and 6 th , 2012. The participants needed around fifteen minutes to answer the questions in the questionnaires distributed. The researcher also interviewed the students and a lecturer at the English Language Education Study Program Sanata Dharma University.

C. Research Participants