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CHAPTER III METHOD OF INVESTIGATION
To achieve the goals which are specified in chapter I, I conducted research in a Senior High School classroom. The research method I used will be described in
the subsequent section of this chapter, which includes research design, types of data, instruments, procedure of collecting data, and method of analyzing data.
3.1 Research Design
This study was designed to investigate the communication strategies used by an English teacher in communicating with her students of the second grade of SMA
Negeri 1 Kendal in the academic year of 20102011, I only took 2x45 minutes of
the teaching learning activity as the sample of the whole data. The data which are utilized for analysis are oral communication. Before taking the data, I followed
some important suitable requirements for research such as systematic, well planned, and conducting the scientific steps.
I conducted a descriptive qualitative approach for this study, more specifically classroom discourse analysis. Qualitative research is a type of
scientific research that seeks answers to a question from the perspectives of the local population it involves Denzin, 2000. Therefore, I did not use numeral
statistics, but I gave most attention to the way the teacher interacted orally with her students and how they used communication strategies in their conversation.
The activities I did to take the data were recording the conversation between the teacher and her students and observing the performance of them.
The observation was conducted to find out the communication strategies used by the teacher and the students. I focused more on the teachers‘ talk because
the success of a class depends on the way teacher teaches. Formerly, the study was supposed to be conducted at speaking class. The conversational topic was
based on the teacher‘s lesson plan, which was going to teach Expression of Annoyance. Nevertheless, due to certain reason, the teacher changed her lesson
plan and she finally discussed some exercises on book, which is usually called learning experience. I kept taking recording on that day and then transcribed it.
Then I interviewed the teacher and her students why they chose to employ each strategy. Finally I gave interpretation about the communication strategies used by
the teacher in communicating with her students by looking at each utterance of the transcription. I used Celce-Murcia et al., 1995: 28 as a framework of my study
because of the newness and the most specific one.
3.2 Types of Data
