Research Method RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This chapter presents more in-depth explanation of the methodology employed in this study to find the answers to the problems indicate earlier in the first chapter. There are five points to be discussed in this chapter. They are: A Research Method, B Research Setting, C Research Participants, D Instruments and Data Gathering Technique, E Data Analysis Technique.

A. Research Method

The goal of this study is to seek the solution of the problem: what is the eleventh grade students’ perception on the use of debate to improve students’ speaking. In order to come up with the answers, a survey research method was employed. Brown and Rodger 2002 state, “Survey are most often use in most language education research and various kind of curriculum development projects” p. 372. This research investigated students’ perception on the use of debate activity in improving speaking skills in SMAN 8 Yogyakarta. In addition, this research is a qualitative research. According to Wahyuni 2012, qualitative research method develops in the social science to enable the writer to study the topic p. 11. Its goal is to gain a deeper understanding of people experiments. The data obtained were presented in the form of a descriptive explanation. According to Fraenkel and Wallen 2015, descriptive research explains things the way they are p. 218. In other words, the researcher does not have control over what already exist. This type of research is often related to the matters such as 29 30 attitudes, opinions, demographic, information, conditions, and procedures. Descriptive data are usually obtained through questionnaires, survey, interviews, as well as observations. This study is related to understand some topic aspects by words since this study observed students ’ perception on the use of debate activities in improving speaking skills. To initiate the study, the researcher distributed the questionnaire to debate extracurricular members of SMA N 8 Yogyakarta. The questionnaire to obtain necessary information about facts, such as their opinion and thought on a new technique to develop their speaking ability especially the skills related to speaking in public setting.

B. Research Setting