CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter contains of six sections, namely the research method, the research setting, the research participants, the instruments and data gathering
technique, the data analysis and the research procedure. The research method contains of the description of method which the researcher used in this study. The
research setting contains the description of the places where this study was conducted and the setting of time. The description of the participants will be
discussed in the next section, which is the research participants. Moreover, there will be also the instruments and data gathering technique where the type of
instrument and the details of data gathering procedure are discussed. The next section is the data analysis, which discusses about the way the researcher analyzed
the data. At the end, there will be the research procedure, which describes the researcher’s procedure of this study from the beginning up to the end.
A. Research Method
The method used by the researcher in this research was qualitative research. As stated by Ary, Jacobs, Sorensen, and Razavieh 2010, a qualitative
research focuses on understanding social phenomena from the perspective of the human participants in natural settings p. 22. Moreover, this research is a
discourse analysis research.
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B. Research Setting
This research was conducted in March and April 2013. The data collecting was done twice. It was because the researcher needed 95 participants to fulfill the
questionnaires for this research. The first data collecting was carried out on the 13
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March 2013 at 10 a.m. in the Kadarman Room of Sanata Dharma University. It was after the Service Program Design class, when half of the eighth semester
English Language Education Study Program students gathered after they finished their class. There were 75 students participating in this research. It took around 30
minutes for the researcher and the participants to conduct this process. The second data gathering was on the 14
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April 2013 in the student hall of Sanata Dharma University. The researcher started to distribute the questionnaires
at 8 a.m. and finished at 12 p.m. There were 20 students participating in the second data gathering. After that, the researcher selected the sufficient data
provided by the participants. Some of the data were not used because the participants either fulfilled it incompletely or had out of context answer. At the
end, there were 80 questionnaires chosen to be analyzed in this research.
C. Research Participants
The participants for this research were the eighth semester students of the English Language Education Study Program in Sanata Dharma University on the
academic year 20132014. There were 95 participants in this research who were asked to fulfill the questionnaires given by the researcher. The reason why the