Reading Texts to Construct Knowledge

28 section. Besides, it is important to note that the topic of the given reading text is similar to that of the listening material. Therefore, the reading texts facilitate the students to comprehend the listening material they listen to in the classroom. However, different students may perceive the implementation of reading text as pre- listening material in different ways. The students may perceive the pre-listening material positively and read the text before the listening section, or they may also perceive it negatively and are not willing to read the text before the listening section. Furthermore, the reading texts also provide the students with linguistic inputs which may be encountered in the listening texts. As a result, through reading text, the students are able to easily comprehend the listening materials. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 29

CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

This chapter deals with methodology used in the research. The discussion of this chapter consists of six sub sections. The first sub-section is about the research method, in which the researcher explains the method used in the research. The second section of this chapter deals with research participants, which tells about the subject observed under the study. In the third sub section, the researcher explains about instruments used in gathering the data. The fourth section discusses the data gathering technique. This sub-section acquaints how the instruments are used in the study. The fifth section, that is data analysis, explains how the data gathered were analyzed. The last section is research procedure. This last section gives clear explanation about steps in conducting the research.

A. Research Method

The research is a qualitative research. Ary, Jacob, Razavieh 2002: 22 say that “qualitative focuses on understanding social phenomena from the perspective of the human participants in the study.” Moreover, according to Holliday 2002: 5, qualitative research is interpretive. He further explains that the researcher needs to investigate the participants deeply as it is believed that people are mysterious and need to be superficially touched. Thereby, qualitative research investigates human experiences in depth. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI