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Internet. It turns in arises a motivation to use Internet in doing the writing tasks seriously and with responsibility. By this motivation, the students would be able to
manage “moving toward’ behaviors in doing the tasks. The term “moving toward” means the serious effort in doing the tasks. In managing the behaviors, a student has
positive thinking toward the use of the Internet, including one thing which allows him to see the Internet’s contributions, especially toward their writing proficiency. The
better the students perceive the use of Internet in doing writing VI exercises, the better they would perceive the Internet’s contributions toward their writing proficiency. The
students’ positive perceptions of the use of the Internet influence the students’ perceptions of the Internet’s contributions which can increase their writing ability. By
having positive perception of the use of the Internet and the Internet’s contributions as well, the students may be helped to improve their proficiency in English, in writing.
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter gives further information on how this study was conducted. It consists of six parts, namely method, respondents, instrument, data gathering
techniques, data analysis techniques, and research procedures.
A. Method
The qualitative approach was applied in this study. Qualitative method was described as approaches used to gather data systematically, but the data were purely
descriptive, and therefore not numerical Sprinthall and Schemutte, 1991: 100. This study was a survey study. It aims at obtaining the answers for the questions stated in
problem formulation. According to Ary et al 1979:297, survey study is a study that permits the researcher to summarize or measure the characteristics, attitudes, and
opinions of several different groups toward some issues. Survey research which focused on a group’s attitudes, opinion, and
characteristics, often takes the form of a questionnaire that is sent out to a group of people. The advantage of using this type of research is that substantial amounts of
information can be collected in a relatively short time. This approach can aid in discerning patterns in large amounts of information Brown, 1988:3.
There are three features in survey studies. The first feature is that probability sampling is employed in order to represent the large number of respondents from the
whole population. The second is questionnaires or interviews are used to ask some questions about the current issues to the respondents, and then record the answers. The
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last is that for quantitative study, the answers are summarized in numerical codes. While for qualitative study, the numerical data is used as an evidence of the conclusion
of a certain issues Singleton and Straits, 1999. The purpose of this survey study was to know the students’ perceptions of the
use of Internet in Writing VI class. This survey research in education involved the collection of information from a group of students, the ones who associated with the
educational issues.
B. Respondents
The term population refers to the entire group of persons, things, or events that share at lest one common trait Sprinthall, Schmutte, and Sirois, 1991:27. The
population of this study was the students who were taking Writing VI class in the academic year of 20062007 at the English Education Study Program, Sanata Dharma
University. The respondents and sources of data of this research were the sixth semester
students from four writing classes in the academic year of 20062007 at the English Education Study Program, Sanata Dharma University. There were five writing classes
in English Education Study Program. However, the researcher took four classes as the respondents. There were 65 respondents from Class A, Class C, Class D and Class E.
Actually, there was also Class B, but the researcher did not include the Class B students as this class does not use www.writing6.wordpress.com. The researcher had
purposive sampling that is there is judgment of typical or representative sample elements which are chosen from the population Ary, D., et. all, 2002. The researcher
took the respondents as purposive sampling because the focus of this research was the sixth semester students who take Writing VI class and they often browse the Internet.
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The respondents for the interview were ten students. Those ten students were the representative of class A, C, D, and E. The interview was a secondary source for
this study. Thus the researcher considered that the data result as a supporting data would support the primary data which was the questionnaire data result.
C. Setting
This research was conducted in even semester Academic Year of 20062007 in April until May 2007. It took place in Writing VI class of English Language Education
Study Program, Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta.
D. Instruments
In carrying out this study, the researcher used two kinds of instruments; interview and questionnaire.
1. Questionnaire
According to Ary et.al 2002: 566, questionnaire was an instrument in which respondents provided written response to questions on mark items that indicated their
reponses. The questionnaire was distributed to a group of people assembled at a certain place for a specific purpose.
The questionnaire used Likert scale, a scale with a number of points that provide ordinal scale measurement Wiersma, 1995: 183. A set of related responses,
one for each point, was provided. The responses were valued from strongly disagree, disagree, agree, strongly agree. The rank was one to four. The choices are SD Strongly
Disagree, D Disagree, AAgree, and SA Strongly Agree. In answering the questions, the respondents were asked cross the number based on their choices. The
