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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