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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter presents the methodology employed in this study in order to conduct  the  research.  It  describes  six  main  parts  of  the  research  methodology,
namely  research  method,  research  setting,  research  participants,  instruments  and data gathering technique, data analysis technique and research procedure.
A.  Research Method
This  research  was  qualitative  research.  According  to  Ary,  Jacobs,  and Sorensen  2010,  qualitative  research  is  research  studies  that  investigate  the
quality of relationships, activities, situations, or materials. It is more on describing in  detail  all  of  what  goes  on  in  a  particular  activity  or  situation  rather  than
comparing the effects of particular treatments,  In addition, Fraenkel and Wallen 2009  note  that  qualitative  researchers  assume  that  the  world  is  made  up  of
multiple  realities,  socially  constructed  by  different  individual  views  of  the  same situation. In this study, the researcher figured out the students’ perception on the
implementation  of  teacher  written  feedback  in  CRW  1  class.  Within  the implementation  of  teacher  written  feedback  in  CRW  1  class,  the  students  in  the
same class might have different perception. Besides, this study employed survey method in which the data of students’
perception  on  the  implementation  of  teacher  written  feedback  in  CRW  1  class were  obtained  by  questionnaire  and  interview.  Ary,  Jacobs,  Sorensen  and
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Razavieh  2002  define  that  survey  is  a  research  technique  in  which  data  are gathered  by  asking  questions  of  a  group  of  individuals  called  respondents.
Moreover,  Wiersma  1995  states  that  surveys  are  used  to  measures  attitudes, opinions,  or  achievements  –  any  number  of  variables  in  natural  settings.  In
collecting the data, this study also distributed questionnaire to all the respondents and interviewed several respondents. In addition, the objectives of this study were
to  figure  out  the  students’  perception  on  the  implementation  of  teacher  written feedback and why the students have a good or bad perception. Therefore, survey
research  could  accommodate  this  research  in  surveying  students’  perception  on the implementation of teacher written feedback and its implication.
B.  Research Setting