Chapter III Research Methodology
This chapter begins with the discussion concerning the research method, next it is followed by the choice of the research method, the research site and the participants.
Furthermore, it presents the techniques of collecting the data as well as the validity of the data. The chapter will finally end with the elaboration of the technique of the data
analysis.
3.1 Research Method
This study was descriptive with an ex-post facto design and it was qualitative in nature
since this study was conducted inductively by collecting the data from the field and analysis which focused on language learning strategies in developing speaking skill
which were employed by high achiever, middle achiever, and low achiever students; next, this study focused on the reasons why they employed those strategies.
As mentioned above, this study was descriptive based on the considerations that the method was characterized by attempting to describe characteristics and events that
exist Kamil, 1985. Furthermore, the design was ex-post facto on the basis that the data were collected after the problems to be viewed happened Sudjana, 1999: 54. In line
with this, Kral 1996: 101 covers that the ex-post facto design strategy may be used when the study is determined to investigate the influence of variables such as home
environment, gender, motivation, intelligence, or habits. The characteristics that Kral 1996 mentioned above are what a subject had possessed before the study began. The
researcher in this case had no direct control over these variables and could only try to determine their incidence on an observed consequence.
Based on the characteristics stated above, it can be concluded that the language learning strategies are one of the factors that have been possessed by the language
learners before they learn a language, so the application of the design fitted the purpose of this study.
3.2 Research Site
