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The teacher accepts the s tudents‟ comments in a nondefensive manner, hearing things that will help give him direction for where be should work when the class meets again. The students learn to take responsibility for their own learning by becoming aware of and controlling how they use certain learning strategies in the class. Universitas Sumatera Utara 27 CHAPTER III METHOD OF RESEARCH

3.1 Research Design

Peter Gavora claims that there are many ways how to define the term “research”. Althoughhe considers some of these definitions very difficult, he states that “research” can be defined as a systematic way of solving problems. Since the research has correction ability, it confirms or disproves actual evidence or makes the new one 2000, 11. Research can be classified as:  Quantitativeis works with numerical values and finds out amount, range or frequency of phenomenon occurrence. Numerical values can be processed mathematically by sum checking, counting theaverage,percentage formulationor by using other methods of mathematic statistics.  Qualitative is expressed byverbal non-numerical form. It is a description which is detailed and cogent. Among typical research methods are non-structured observations or ethnographic interviews. MiroslavChráska adds that one of the basic differences between quantitative and qualitative research is that they both come from different philosophical principles. Quantitative research is influenced by positivism from which the theory based on the existence of only one reality results, while qualitative research comes Universitas Sumatera Utara 28 from phenomenology which puts stress on subjective aspects of human‟s acts and that is why it admits the existence of more realities 2007, 32. This short-term research is therefore classified as a research based on qualitative the interview with teachers and also partly on quantitative results expressing frequency of using particular pronunciation activities and correction techniques obtained from observations analysis of collected data. This research I use teh qualitative research. It is based on the observation and interview in teaching-learning process of English in the classroom. At first, the activities of English teaching-learning process are observed in the class which involves the teachers and students interactionespecially the techniques and methods used by the teacher in teaching English and the responces from the students by using the note taking method for recording the data by using my own observation sheets,. And at last, I try to analyze what kind of techniques and methods that are used by kindergarten teachers in teaching English at Budi Dharma in Tebing Tinggi.

3.2 The source of data