Place Settings of the Study

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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This study investigated the teachers‘ belief and classroom practices of teaching grammar at Basic English Course, Pare Kediri East Java. Particularly in this chapter, the writer describes the research methodology adopted in this study. It begins by explaining the setting of the study, by providing the place and time of the study. The next part of this chapter is data resources which support the study consists of a brief portrait of research respondents, events and documents involved. It then describes the research design. This is followed by technique of collecting data and a description of the strategies used to enhance the validity and trustworthiness of the data and findings. Overall, this chapter has been completed by a detailed discussion about the technique of analyzing the data.

A. Settings of the Study

In this section, the writer first described the place of the study. Then the writer presented the time of conducting the research.

1. Place

Basic English Course BEC which is situated in Pare, Kediri East Java is chosen to be the place of conducting the research. The course was built for the first time by Muhammad Kalend Osen on Anyelir Street, Singgahan Countryside, Palem Village, Pare Subdistrict 33 years ago. Since there are many people in that village are able to speak English and there are many English Courses grown up in perpustakaan.uns.ac.id commit to user this village along with the boarding houses provided by the local people, this village then become very popular with name of English Village . The numbers of students have been increased every year, varied from the elementary until college students, even the English teachers who wants to improve their speaking skill. BEC becomes the unique place of English courses in Pare Kediri, East Java because of several reasons. First, it has an Islamic mission that is rarely had by the other English courses in Indonesia. It influences in the way of promoting the course which is not like what is done by the other English courses that do some promotions in printed or electronic media. The promotion is done by the graduates because of the effect of Muslim brotherhood among them. This English course is also founded and directed by a creative person who is a good Muslim. Second, the facilities provided there are limited enough, but this weakness cannot hamper the students to study English successfully. Third, the fee should be paid to study English there is quite cheap compared with the fee spent to study English at the other English courses in Indonesia. Moreover, the teachers are mostly the graduate of BEC who are qualified. Although some of them are university graduates, but none of them are native speakers. Whereas, many English courses attract the people who want to study English by informing that they have native instructors or minimally the instructors who master the language with certain degrees. Next, the teaching evaluation system used at BEC is simple and effective. In addition, the reason of the travelling program to Borobudur Temple is not commit to user usual, i.e. for testing the students‘ English speaking ability to the foreigners. The environment of BEC affecting the environment of Pare is conducive for the students to learn English intensively. For all those reasons, BEC turn out to be the most popular English course in Pare.

2. Time