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study investigated written texts Merriam, 1991; Travers, 2001, cited in Samanhudi, 2011 which was factual text written by Indonesian EFL students for
their writing assignments. As Freebody 2000 said, this text analysis is another method of qualitative case study which is one linguistic approach that has been
well developed in the area of education. Further, one of the strengths of a case study is it could observe effects in real contexts, recognizing that context is a
powerful determinant of both causes and effects Cohen et al, 2007:253. Therefore, a case study design has been considered appropriate for this study,
since it provided a unique example of real people in real situations.
Besides, this study employed multiple data collection techniques and analysis procedures to increase the validity of the study, including interviews, and
document of the students’ factual texts. Multiple data gatherings aimed to enhance the construct validity of the study Yin, 1993, p. 39-40 in Emilia, 2005, p.74. In
addition, the greatest advantage of this study as a case study was that it permitted a researcher to reveal the way multiple factors interacted to produce the unique
character of the entity which was the participants of the research Thomas, 2003, p.35.
3.3 Research Site and Participants
T his study was carried out at Computer Accounting Department of a Polytechnic
in Bandung. This research site was chosen for two reasons. First, the researcher is one of the teaching staff members with more than three years of teaching
experience within the institution. It helped the researcher to get easy access to the research site, and hence, increased the feasibility of the study Bogdan and Biklen,
1998, p.34. Second, the absence of study on reading and writing in the site was the other factor to conduct this research in eliciting information regarding to the
implementation of Reading to Learn program in develop ing students’ reading and
writing ability into the classroom and curricula, especially in the English subject
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of the university. As Chaffee et al 2002, p.4 mentions, the students at this level are expected to think more conceptually, to write more analytically and to read
more critically.
The participants of this study were students of the second grade students of
Computer Accounting in the Academic year of 2013-2014. The selection of the participants was guided by convenience sampling, in which a group of individuals
who conveniently are available for study Fraenkel and Wallen, 2007:100. The students were chosen for three reasons. First, the students involved in this study
were accessible for the researcher to get the data since they were still active as the second-semester students in the research site. Second, the participants in this
study represent three levels of achievement: low achiever, middle achiever, and high achiever student. The categorization of the students’ ability was based on
their writing scores in the writing class. The other reason was related to the materials suggested in the curriculum in this grade which focused on the writing
ability on narrative, recount, and descriptive text factual text. However, this study specifically focused on reading and writing factual text.
3.4 Data Collection Techniques
