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interpreting quantitative and qualitative data in a single study or series studies that investigated the same phenomenonas cited in Cohen, Manion,
Morrison, 2011, p. 22. In this study the researcher wanted to figure out about the perception
of using Google Translate as a tool in helping students from XI IPS 1 SMA N 1 Banguntapan in writing analytical exposition text. Therefore, the researcher
conducts mixed methods study.
B. Research Setting
This study was conducted in SMA N 1 Banguntapan. The setting of this study was in XI IPS 1. There were three IPS classes in SMA N 1
Banguntapan. However, the researcher chose XI IPS 1. The class had English class twice in a week; which was on Wednesday and Thursday. On
Wednesday, the English class started at 07:00 am and finished at 8:30 am. Meanwhile on Thursday, the English class started at 12:15 pm and finished at
01:45 pm.
C. Research Participants
The study participants were students of XI IPS 1 SMA N 1 Banguntapan. There were 31 students in the class. The criteria for being a
participant were; the student must be a student of XI IPS 1 SMA N 1 Banguntapan, participate in English class during writing assignment that is
given, and use Google Translate to help them in their writing assignment.
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D. Research Instruments and Data Gathering Technique
In this study, the researcher used two instruments which were questionnaire and interview. The reason is to obtain the qualitative and
quantitative data in order to get the answer of the study questions. This was because questionnaires or interviews could be used in survey to collect data
from selected sample to which the findings of the data analysis can be
generalized Gall, Gall, Borg, 2007.
According to Gall, Gall, Borg 2007, p. 228, questionnaires and interviews were used extensively in educational study to collect data about
phenomena that are not directly observable; inner experience, opinions, values, interests, and the like. They also can be used to collect data about
observable phenomena more conveniently than by direct observation.
1. Questionnaire
Questionnaire was chosen because it had advantages for the study. The first advantage was the cost of sampling respondents over a wide
geographic was lower, and the second advantage was that the time required to collect the data typically was much less Gall, Gall, Borg;
2007. The questionnaire was made to obtain the data quickly. The
participants would have two types of questions in the questionnaire. The first one was open-ended questions and another one was closed-ended
questions.
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a. Close-ended questions
Close-ended questions were questions which were easy. They were straightforward to code and did not discriminate unduly on the
basis of how articulate the respondents were Wilson and McLean, 1994.
However, according to Oppenheim 1992, p. 115 close-ended questions also had its disadvantages. Close-ended questions do not
enable participants to add any remarks, qualifications and explanations to the categories, and there is a risk that the categories might not be
exhaustive and that there might be bias as cited in Cohen, Manion, Morrison, 2011, p. 382.
For the closed-ended questions, the researcher used likert-scale as there are 25 questions with 5 choices of answer. There are „Strongly
Disagree‟, „Disagree‟, „Undecided‟, „Agree‟, and „Strongly Agree‟. As Joshi, Kale, Chandel, and Pal 2015 state that likert-scale is a set of
statements offered for a real situation under study. For the likert-scale, the participants are asked to show their level of agreement with the
given statement. The level of agreement itself is from „strongly
disagree‟ to „strongly agree‟. As Joshi, Kale, Chandel, and Pal 2015 have said, the position
of neutrality undecided in the middle of the level of agreement provides independence to the participants to choose any response in a
balanced. This construction is known as symmetric scale.
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b. Open-ended questions
The aim of open-ended questions was to give freedom to the participants to write the answer. These kinds of questions were good,
however it was difficult to code and classify. It meant the researcher
should work harder in order to find the answer.
2. Interview
The aim of interview in this study was to obtain data in details from the participants. The interview allowed the researcher to obtain more
data and clarify some of the data which already existed from the questionnaire.
As Kerlinger 1970 states, interview could be used to follow up unexpected results or to go deeper into the motivations of respondents and
their reasons for responding as they do as cited in Cohen, Manion, Morrison, 2011, p. 411. Thus, the researcher could clarify the students‟
answers in questionnaire and got the clearer answers through interview. Interview in this study was a set of questions which were asked to
the respondents. The answers were recorded which the interviewer was free to modify the sequence of questions, change the wording, explain
them or add to them to the completely informal interview Cohen, Manion, and Morrison; 2011.
By using those instruments, the researcher wanted to figure out the perception of the use of Google Translate by students in XI IPS 1 SMA N 1
