CHAPTER III METHOD OF RESEARCH
3.1 Research Design
This study observes the difficulties of eleventh grade of senior high school students in writing narrative texts and past tense. In order to answer the research
questions on how students’ difficulty in writing narrative texts in terms of linguistic features, this study employ qualitative method which settle collected case study.
Moleong 2006: 3 states that qualitative method is a procedure that generates the data in the form of descriptive words in written or spoken from people and observed
behavior. The writer has the tendency to become subjectively immersed in the subject matter in this type of research method.
As Ary, et.al. 2010: 455 state, case studies can answer descriptive questions what happened or attempt to explain why something happened by
looking at a process. They are particularistic focused on a particular phenomenon, situation, or event, descriptive providing as an end result a thick rich description,
and heuristic focused on providing new insights. Moreover, Cohen, Manion and Morrison 2000: 181 say that a case study is
a specific instance that is frequently designed to illustrate a more general principle. This study is not only describe the students’ difficulties but also to find out what can
be proposed to help the teacher in English to solve the students’ difficulties in writing narrative text.
Therefore, it is very important to find out the difficulties especially for the teachers. The teachers can identify the students’ difficulties in writing so they can
solve the problem. The solution made by the teachers depend on the students’ difficulties. This is the greatest advantage that the teacher can have conducting a case
study. Moreover, collective case study was used in this study to grain detail
information on the phenomenon concerning students’ writing particularly in narratives. Therefore, in the present study, students’ narratives writing will be
examined based on the language features by using a case study.
3.2 Population and Sample
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