5 3.
Communicative Language Teaching is an approach to teaching English
which contains a set of principles about the goals of language teaching, how learners learn a language, the kinds of classroom activities that best
facilitate learning, and the roles of teachers and learners in the classroom Richards, 2006: 2.
1.6 The Organization of the Thesis
This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter is introduction which highlights the basic description of this study. The second chapter deals with
theoretical framework building up the theories and references for this study. The third chapter describes the methodology that was used to conduct this
research. The fourth chapter elaborates research finding and discussion. The fifth or the last chapter summarizes the findings, presents the conclusion of the thesis
and offers some suggestions for further research.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
This chapter describes some important elements related to research methodology. The elements are research design, setting and participants, data
collection method, data analysis method, and validity issues.
3.1 Research design
In relation to its nature, purposes and research questions, this study employs a case study research which uses qualitative method in order to document the
detail of information of how people interact in this situation. Silverman 2005: 6 suggests that when we are concerned with exploring people’s life histories or
everyday behavior, a qualitative method should be used. The case study is chosen since the focus of attention is the case, not the
whole population of cases Stake, 1998 in Nunan, 1992: 75 that will be studied in detail Punch, 1998 in Silverman, 2005: 126 in order to arrive at a comprehensive
understanding of the groups under study and to develop general theoretical statements about regularities in social structure and process Becker, 1968, cited
in Merriam, 1988: 11. In addition, this study used multiple sources of evidence or multiple data collections Yin, 1993 and Freebody, 2003 cited in Emilia, 2005:
74 which include questionnaire, classroom observations, and interview which was taken before and after the observation see section 3.3
To specify teachers’ beliefs about CLT, this study used questionnaire as main instrument for collecting the data. The data, both from classroom
