CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
A. Type of Research
This research is descriptive qualitative research. It does not deal with testing of a theory or hypothesis, but it deals with understanding of theory
Hadi, 2001:23. Based on Wiersma 1995:217 there are some characteristic of qualitative research. First, the research should be conducted in the natural
setting so it needs a holistic interpretation. The second is that qualitative research emphasizes on narrative description and interpretation. Third, the
study has a theory that is grounded in the data. The fourth, it tends to analyze the data inductively, and the last is that the purpose is to understand the social
phenomena. It is the study in which the researcher needs to collect and analyze data to get conclusion. This researcher is concerned with providing a
description of phenomena which occurs naturally without intervention.
B. Sources and Data
According to Wuardji in Praopo 2001:3, a research should be done systematically; having valid, reliable, and objective results; and should be
supported by data empirically. Memorandum of understanding between the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia and the
Department of Business, Innovation and Skills on behalf of the Government and Devolved Administrations of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland on Cooperation in the Field of Education selected as the
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data of this thesis. It contains of twelve articles and four pages. There are objective, scopes of cooperation, implementation, funding, participation of
other institutions, and limitation of personnel activities, joint working group, confidentiality and intellectual property rights, traditional knowledge,
settlement of dispute, amendment and entry into force, duration, and termination. It signed in London, on 13
th
June 2002. It was duplicate into two languages, there were in English and Bahasa Indonesia.
Based on Fraenkel and Wallen 1993:100-101, states that data as the kinds of information that researcher obtained on the subject on their research.
There are two data resources were used in this research. The data sources are the Memorandum of Understanding in English and Bahasa Indonesia texts.
The data forms in this research are words, phrases or the whole sentences. The sources of this data will help the researcher get a great number of information
that is needed.
C. Method of Data Collection
The data will be collected by selecting all addition and omission terms in the Memorandum of Understanding in English and Bahasa Indonesia texts.
The researcher read the texts several times to obtain the data to be analyzed. Data were taken to support the research question. The researcher was reading
and note taking. By reading to the texts of the documents, the researcher took
a note that the addition and omission can be found in the words, phrases, sentences or clause.
D. Technique of Data Analysis
These are the steps designed to perform the research: a.
Collecting the data that appear in the form of words, phrases, sentences and clauses from the two data resources: Memorandum
of Understanding in English and Bahasa Indonesia texts. b.
Analyzing addition and omission technique in
Memorandum of Understanding in English and Bahasa Indonesia texts.
c. Writing down the data in the data sheets and then coded the
data. d.
Drawing conclusion of the result analysis.
E. Trustworthiness
Qualitative studies are tools used and describe human experience. These studies also use subjectivity of the researcher in describing the phenomena
under the study. To obtain trustworthiness of the qualitative research, the research will apply credibility and dependability. Therefore, there must be
credibility to ensure the findings of qualitative research Vanderstoep and Johnston, 2006: 179. The researcher applied the triangulation technique to
achieve the credibility by asking some observes to verify the data. The experts have the capability to find the validity of the data. Besides of her advisors, the
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