20 from Altman et al., 1985, the factors that influence listening, and understanding
different accent. To answer the second research question about the challenges that students
find in listening to the English accents, the researcher uses two theories. The first theory is the factors that influence the listening skill such as the speed, the clarity
of the speaker, and motivation. The second theory is the challenges that are found in listening to the non-native English accents such as the accent, the
pronunciation, the stress, the intonation, the dialect, and the rhythm. Furthermore, to determine how the students perceives the accents of non-
native English speakers, some theories that had been discussed in theoretical description are used to explore issues related to answering the research questions
in this study.
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter deals with methodology used by the researcher to obtain the data needed to anwer the research problems. This chapter is divided into six parts.
There are research method, research participants, research instruments, data gathering techniques, data analysis techniques, and research procedures. The
methodology research is done to answer the two research questions in this study.
A. Research Method
In this study, the researcher combined both types of quantitative and qualitative research as the approach to answer two research questions. Best and
Kahn 2006, p. 271 stated that, one research that often uses both types of research methodologies qualitative and quantitative is survey research. Further, it is also
explained that a survey could contain questions that provide quantitative response and also ask questions that result in qualitative data.
It is also supported by Creswell 2015, p. 19, who stated that both quantitative and qualitative data might employ similar approaches, such as
interview or questionnaire. Quantitative approaches use the closed-ended responses categories e.g., strongly agree, strongly disagree, agree and disagree,
such as in the questionnaire. On the other hand, qualitative approaches use open-
