3.4 Method of Data Collection
The procedure of collecting the data in this final project was divided into several steps, they are.
3.4.1 Recording the Radio Talk Show Program
The writer found interesting English conversation in Pro 2 English Time edition which titled “Ingrid from Holland”, the conversations were among Indonesian
speakers of English, a native English speaker from Holland and listeners who join the program via telephone line. The data observed here was audio data which
taken from recorded radio program. According to Wray et al. 1998: 153, audio and video recording was a support to many types of work, where it may save
researcher from having to make frantic notes at the time and risk missing important information. Hence, in order to provide a good quality recorded audio
data, the Adobe
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Audition
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1.5 program which was connected to a radio device was used. Later, the audio data was saved in an MP3 format and in order to
support the process of transcribing, the data was listened as frequent as possible.
3.4.2 Transcribing the Dialogues in the Radio Talk Show Program
The data of this final project was a non-scripted conversation of radio talk show. Meanwhile, according to Wray et al. 1998: 201 for an analysis to be valid, the
transcription of the data must be accurate. In order to fulfill to gain the purpose of this final project, the conversations in Pro 2 English Time were transcribed. Here,
the utterances, the initial name of speaker, indicated a pause in the conversation and indicated standard intonation patterns were written down. The example of this
step was seen as follows: Table 3.1 Transcript of Conversation
264. E.2 : Ehm – OK, I just mm ++ what ++ I have a question for you about
your job, you are a journalist, RIGHT? 265. I :
YES, I am 266. E.2 :
You have invited many places in Indonesia, and I want to know what are impression, your mm ++ your own
impression about Indonesian - Indonesian people 267. R :
PARDON, Eni…can you speak LOUDER? 268. E.2 :
OK, I just want to know your impression, your impression about Indonesian people
269. I : IMPRESSION? My IMPRESSION?
270. E : AHA yes
3.5 Method of Data Analysis
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