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Madrasah Aliyah; a school under the management or organization of
Ministry of Religious Affairs as a central or top management and of the Department of Basic and Secondary Education which is directly responsible and
that controls on it. According to Moulton 2008, Madrasah is a school designed for young Muslem with a religious foundation on Qur’anic recitation and Islamic
values.
1.6 Thesis Organization
This thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter one is the introduction to this study. It covers the background of this study, the research questions, the
significance of this study, the purposes of this study, and the clarification of terms. Chapter two reviews the theoretical foundation for this study which covers
discussion on the vision and missions, the role of the school vision and missions, the Islamic school vision and missions, the textbooks selection, good textbooks,
the effect of the vision and missions in selecting textbooks, and the previous study in textbooks use.
Chapter three elaborates the research methodology. It covers the research design, the research site, the research participant, the data collection, and the data
analysis. Chapter four presents the data presentation and discussions of the research. Chapter five draws the conclusions and suggestions of the study. It also
offers some recommendation for further research.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODHOLOGY
This chapter will discuss the methodological aspects of the study. Four main aspects of the research will be discussed: first, research design; second,
research participant; third, data collection techniques; and fourth, data analysis. This study makes use of a qualitative design by employing a case study. Three
instruments of data collection method, questionnaire, interview, and observation were used to collect the data and information to answer the research questions.
3.1 The Research Design
In relation to the nature, the purposes and research questions above, this study employed a qualitative research design, implementing some characteristics
of a case study. The case study had been chosen for several reasons. First, this study was carried out in “a single case” Kvale, 1996, that is, the teachers’ use of
textbooks at a Madrasah Aliyah related to the school vision and missions. Then, this study employed the multiple sources of evidence-converging from the same
set of issues, which constituted the important aspect of a case study Yin, 2003: 85 and the multiple data collections intending to expand the construct validity of
the study Merriam, 1998. This research was conducted qualitatively as its problems or questions are
possibly answered in a qualitative way of study. This was because the topic dealt with human problem as a social phenomenon. It was said that qualitative research
is a multi method approach to study phenomena in their natural settings. In doing
34 so, the qualitative researchers use the interpretive and naturalistic methods. A
qualitative study aimed at understanding, or interpreting, the meanings people bring to the phenomenon under study Maxwell, 1996. Qualitative methods were
selected for use in this study because the researcher was interested in discovering and describing the English teachers’ use of textbooks at a Madrasah Aliyah
related to the Islamic school vision and missions.
3.2 The Research Site
