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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Research Method
In this research, the writer used the qualitative descriptive method. Descriptive research involves describing and interpreting events, condition, or
situation of the present. Meanwhile, qualitative research is a research method based on naturalist paradigm that has some characteristics. Firstly, the
realities are multiple and holistic. Secondly, the knower and known are interactive and inseparable. Thirdly, hypothesis is bounded by time and
context. Fourthly, the causes and effect are impossible to be distinguished. Fifthly, the inquiry is value-bound Lincoln and Guba, 1985: 37. The writer
reported a qualitative method in the form of case study, because the study discussed is related with the activity or process of teaching and learning in the
classroom. Based on those theories the writer of this research used qualitative
method in the form of naturalistic inquiry. The writer focused on the implementation of bilingualism in the teaching learning activities at
International Standardized School. In this research, the writer was the research instrument because in collecting the data, the writer had to interact
with the respondents directly and find the meaning of the interaction result. To describe the students’ and teacher’s attitudes toward the
implementation of bilingualism in the teaching learning activities at International Standardized School, the writer used analytical descriptive
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method. Brumfit and Michell 1995: 1 in “Research in the language Classrooms” say that descriptive research will aim at providing as accurate
account as possible of what current practice is how learners do learn, how teachers do teach, what classroom do look like, at the particular moment in
the particular place. According to Seliner and Shomany 1989: -, descriptive research
involves a collection of techniques used to specify, delineate or describe naturally occurring phenomena without experimental manipulation. Elliot and
Kratochwill 1999: 34 state that descriptive study is a research in which the investigator examines and reports things the way they are in an effort to
understand and explain them. That is why the research is qualitative descriptive research. Qualitative descriptive research is a method choice when
straight descriptions of phenomena are desired.
B. Description of Setting
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