The Type of the Research The Research Strategy

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CHAPTER 3. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY

To achieve a successful research, it is needed certain method and design of research. This chapter provides the methodology used in this research. It consists of the type of research, the research strategy, the data of the research, and the data analysis.

3.1 The Type of the Research

Gass and Mackey 2005: 2 state that there are two most common approaches dealing with research which are known as quantitative and qualitative researches. The quantitative research generally starts with an experimental design in which a hypothesis is followed by the quantification of data and some sort of numerical analysis is carried out. On the other hand, qualitative research generally is not set up as experiments; the data cannot be easily quantified, and the analysis is interpretive rather than statistical. This study is qualitative research, since the data of this study are in the form of sentences; it means the data used are not in the form of statistic or number.

3.2 The Research Strategy

There are several kinds of research strategies especially in social research. Denscombe 2007 mentions some kinds of research strategies such as surveys, case studies, experiments, ethnography, action research, and so on. The research strategies aim at putting the social researcher in the best possible position to gain the best outcome from the research. In achieving the goals of the research, this study applies case studies as the research strategy. According to Denscombe 2007: 35, case studies focus on one or just a few instances of a particular phenomenon with a view providing an in-depth account of events, relationships, experiences or processes occurring in that particular instance. In this research, the case occurs on the Indonesian-English translation of the thesis summaries of International Management Class of 2010 Jember University. The thesis summaries are not translated based on the English grammatical rules, but the fact the students are expected to have a better English proficiency rather than other management classes that is proved by the requirement of English proficiency at the beginning of their study as international class students.

3.3 The Data of the Research