Method of Data Analysis

3.6 Method of Data Analysis

In his book, Syakur 1995:85 states that there are nine possible methods that can be used in research. One of them is descriptive method. This kind of method is used to describe what actually happens in a certain situation or condition. It provides the analysis of certain facts, for instance, the analysis of test result. The research conducted by the writer in this study is a descriptive research. The writer chose this method because it represented the effectiveness of song used to improve pronunciation achievement of the year seventh students of MTs ANNUR Jepara Arikunto 1998:102 states that a descriptive research can be carried out at school, factory, family, hospital, society, etc. The writer conducted the research at MTs ANNUR Jepara. The objective of the test was used to identify the students’ achievement in pronunciation related to intelligible pronunciation through spoken words. Harmer 2000: 184 states that if intelligible is the goal then it suggests that some pronunciation features are more important than others. Harris 1969: 81 also asserts that pronunciation analysis includes the segmental features vowels and consonants and the suprasegmental features stress and intonation pattern. Based on the statements above, the writer made the analysis on three important pronunciation features; vowels, consonants and word stress. The writer did analysis on vowels, consonants and word stress. The standard pronunciation used in this study was the standard pronunciation of Oxford Learner’s Dictionary. The data analysis of this study went through the following steps: 1 Transcribing the students’ pronunciation. In this step, the writer made the transcription of the students’ sound by listening to their voice several times to make it clear. To get the empirical data, the writer playing the recording several times to make the transcription of students’ pronunciation and the teacher of the school where she conducted the research. The teacher’s educational background is S-1 degree of English Education. And then compare whether there was difference on the transcription. When there were some differences, then, the writer listened the recording sounds again. 2 Comparing the transcription After getting the transcription of students’ pronunciation, the writer compared it to the standard pronunciation transcription. The standard phonetic transcription used in this study was taken from Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. 3 Marking Students’ pronunciation The criteria of marking pronunciation achievement suggested on GBPP of The Development of Competence Based Curriculum-Scoring System is that to mark pronunciation can be based on the close similarity of the students’ pronunciation with the native’s. From this suggestion, the writer drew criteria in analyzing the students’ pronunciation. If the students’ pronunciation was intelligible and acceptable do not offer meaning changes it means that the students made good pronunciation. On the other hand, students made poor pronunciation if their pronunciation of the words were unintelligible and offer different meaning. 4 Analyzing questionnaire The writer analyzed the questionnaire through the following steps: a Grading the Items of the Questionnaire. b Determining the Grade Score. c Tabulating the Data of Questionaire. d Finding the Mean. The formula used for computing the mean is as follows: M = Σx N Where, M = the mean Σx = the sum of the item score, and N = the number of the students e Matching the Mean to a Criterion 5 Interpreting the data findings The writer interpreted the results of the data obtained by comparing the students’ pronunciation achievement on pretest and posttest, and its relation with the result of the questionnaire. The interpretation was used to describe the improvement of the students’ achievement in pronouncing English words.

CHAPTER IV DATA ANALYSIS