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3. Selecting The Media
A document analysis uses many kinds media to be analyzed, such as textbooks, newspapers, web pages, speeches, television programs, advertisements,
videos, musical compositions, or any of a host of other types of documents. In this study, the media to analyze was taken from the live-performance videos from the
Japanese singer when he is singing English songs.
4. Gathering The Data
In this step, the researcher started to find the live-performance videos of L’Arc-en-Ciel . The researcher downloaded the videos from youtube. After that, the
researcher found the song lyrics sung by those singer and transcribed the standard phonetic transcription of the words and word group in the lyrics containing tense
vowels and liquids. The standard phonetic transcriptions were inserted in the basic table which had been made.
5. Analyzing The Data
In analyzing the data, there were some steps which should be undergone by the researcher. The following is the steps in analyzing the data.
a. The first thing to do was listening to the video from YouTube.com. b. Secondly, the researcher found the words containing tense vowels and liquids.
c. Next, the words found were transcribed into phonetic symbols. d. After having written the phonetic transcription, the writer inserted them in the
table of variation of phonetic transcription so that the difference from the standard phonetic transcription could be seen.
31 e. Then, the next step was categorizing the findings into three major groups, which
were words or words group containing tense vowels, words or word groups containing diphthongs, and words or word groups containing liquids.
f. After inserting the phonetic transcription, the researcher tried to find the difference between the standard phonetic transcription and variation.
g. From the differences, the researcher described the process of pronunciation of the Japanese singer when producing tense vowels and liquids by relating the
theories how the process of pronouncing the tense vowels and liquids were with the pronunciation produced by the Japanese singer.
h. Describing what made the Japanese singer produce the sounds of tense vowels and liquids differently in which the strategies of how they made the sound could
be indicated.
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