Data Source AN ANALYSIS OF HEDGING USES IN SKRIPSI-S EMPLOYING QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHOD.

Erfan Muhamad Fauzi, 2014 An Analysis Of Hedging Uses In Skripsi-S Employing Quantitative And Qualitative Research Method Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia | repository.upi.edu | perpustakaan.upi.edu hedging in academic writing. Creswell 2011 believes qualitative research is the suitable research method for exploration of variables and problems that has been clearly revealed. One of qualitative research method characteristics is exploring a problem and developing a detailed understanding of a central phenomenon Creswell, 2011. This is in line with what Sinclair 2004 suggests trusting the text, in discourse analysis. Discourse analysis is employed in this study as one type of qualitative research methods. Jorgensen and Phillips 2002 believes that discourse analysis can be used not only as theory in interpreting the text but also in doing the procedure of analysis of text. Dealing with this, Conrad 2002; in Charles, Maggie et al, 2009 provides an overview of approaches that can be used to examine discourse phenomena and distinguishes four types: 1 studies which examine a feature of language in use; 2 studies of the realizations of a function of language; 3 studies of a variety of language and 4 studies that trace the occurrence of a linguistic feature throughout a text. By characteristics above, exploration of hedging as metadiscourse phenomenon can be included in qualitative research. Qualitative research design can reveal the unsuspected patterns of language through examining the nature and structure of language of large collection of text Sinclair, 2003 and 2004. To support qualitative research, the use of hedging in skripsi-s was depicted comprehensively in statistical display. This study is followed by discursive analysis derived from discourse analysis above in form of narrow scope of survey. Quantitative analysis in survey design by showing descriptive analysis helps us to scan an issue in order to generalize certain features Cohen, Manion and Morrison, 2007.

3.3 Data Source

In order to cope with the purposes of this research, the data that match for this study are those digital copy of skripsi-s of English education major students’. There are four skripsi-s selected in this study to analyse, namely, four undergraduate students’ academic writing skripsi-s consisting of two skripsi-s Erfan Muhamad Fauzi, 2014 An Analysis Of Hedging Uses In Skripsi-S Employing Quantitative And Qualitative Research Method Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia | repository.upi.edu | perpustakaan.upi.edu employing quantitative research method and two skripsi-s employing qualitative research method. Because this study tries to figure out the contrast of the use of hedging in skripsi-s employing quantitative and qualitative research method, this study used purposive sampling. In purposive sampling, the case included in the sample is the basis of judgment of typicality or possession of the particular characteristics being sought Cohen et al, 2006. The data are taken due to the availability of this research procedure that needs digital copy of skripsi-s in the same major of study. The same university in similar management is advantageous as well, in terms of internal validity, in that the environment and management are almost equal in certain conditions. Therefore, this study has two female undergraduate with qualitative skripsi and two female undergraduate with quantitative skripsi. The following table illustrates the research participants involved in this study. Table 3.1 Data sources of this study Variables 2011 2010 Quantitative 1 1 Qualitative 1 1 Total 2 2 The text for research data were taken from skripsi-s of the undergraduate students from the same major. However not all the contents of the reserach are analyzed due to time constraints of the participants. Therefore, this study takes chapter IV result and discussion sections in similar proportion out of each skripsi-s. This effort is done in order to retain the naturality of reserach findings, bacause naturality is what qualitative study tries to hold Alwasilah, 2008.

3.4 Data Collection