CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter discusses the methodology of the study. It is divided into six parts. There are research method, research respondents, research instrument, data
gathering technique, data analysis technique and research procedure.
A. Research Method
This study is intended to investigate the kinds of out-of-class language activities conducted by the eighth grade students of Joannes Bosco Junior High
School. In order to attain the objective, the study employed a survey research. According to Creswell 1994, a survey research provides a quantitative or
numeric description of some fractions of the population or the sample through the data collection process of asking the same questions of the people. In other words,
“surveys asks a number of the same questions, all related to the issue, to find answer
” Fraenkel, et al., 2012, p.393. Typically, the survey is the most widely used social science data gathering technique. Neuman 2011 points out that
survey method as the quantitative research in which the researcher systematically asked a large number of people the same question and then recorded their answer.
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According to Vaus 2002, survey method is one method of collecting, organizing and analyzing the relevant data which are collected by a variety of
techniques and in many studies it may be appropriate to use the range of research methods. In this study, the writer used questionnaire and interview as the tools. In
order to collect the quantitative data, the researcher asked questions to the respondents which were related to the main issue of this study, namely, the kinds
of out-of-class language activities. The data from the questionnaires became the main data while the data from the interview as the supporting data. The main data
collected from the questionnaires were presented in a quantitative way, in the form of numeric information. The supporting data gathered from the interview
were presented descriptively.
B. Research Respondents
In this study, there were eighty one respondents out of 148 total students of the eighth grade students of Joannes Bosco Junior High School Yogyakarta.
The respondents aged around 13-14 years old with various experiences in engaging themselves in out-of-class language activities. In this study, the
researcher selected the respondents randomly from three classes out of the five parallel classes as mentioned in the research limitation in Chapter One to be
involved in this research. The reason for choosing eighth grade students of Joannes Bosco Junior
High School because they already experienced and were involved in the out-of- class language activities at least in their seventh grade. Based on the researcher
observation the seventh grade students mostly already deal with out-of-class language activities using their digital gadget. Moreover, the English teacher of
Joannes Bosco Junior High School said that most of the students engaged in out- of-class language activities. Therefore, they are supposed to take the opportunity
in their eighth grade to engage themselves in out-of-class language activities in a proper way. To strengthen the opinion, the study requires various kinds of
activities that the respondents engaged in, in order to better understand and answer the research question.
Meanwhile, the other participants were four participants out of the eighty one participants to be interviewed based on their positive attitude towards English.
The writer asked their English teacher to choose them as the participants, by considering their positive attitude towards English language and actively
participates in out-of-class English activities.
C. Research Instrument
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