Research Instruments Language Choice of members of Resimen Mahasiswa of University of Sumatera Utara

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3.4 Data Collection Procedures

This research uses descriptive qualitative method. The first step which is done in this observation is approaching the members for several months. The purposes of doing it is to make the process runs well. The data in this observation are obtained from the interaction between the observer, the members, and also the commandant through involving in the process of the way to respond from speaking in language choice directly and try to collect some data based on their utterances and their responds. The writer tries to observe the members who come from different background of the study either in major of study or faculty in the campus life. In this research, the observer tries to make an observation on how the members include the commandant can use their own language choice to act, and to speak. The conversation on training itself must be done in natural way. The members of Resimen Mahasiswa of University of Sumatera Utara will observe the training and the observer will analyze that conversation naturally. 26 CHAPTER VI ANALYSIS AND FINDING

4.1 Analysis

In this chapter, there are 15 members who filled questionnaire that indicate the relationship between the Resimen Mahasiswa activity with language choice. Actually, the populations are all of the members of Resimen Mahasiswa that consists of 30 students of University of Sumatera Utara that join in Resimen Mahasiswa. As what Nawawi says 2001:141 “Populasi adalah keseluruhan obyek penelitian yang dapat terdiri dari manusia, hewan, tumbuh-tumbuhan, gejala-gejala, nilai test atau peristiwa-peristiwa sebagai sumber data yang memiliki karakteristik tertentu di dalam suatu penelitian. The overall population is the object of research which can consist of humans, animals, plants, symptoms, test scores or events as a source of data that have certain characteristics in a study . Meanwhile Sugiyono 2005: 90 states that “Populasi adalah wilayah generalisasi yang terdiri atas subyek dan subyek yang mempunyai kualitas dan karakteristik tertentu yang ditetapkan oleh peneliti untuk dipelajari kemudian ditarik kesimpulan”. Population is the generalization region consisting the subjects and subjects that have certain qualities and characteristics defined by the researchers to be learned then deduced. The fact is these 15 samples are they are who do language choice during the observation. Sugiyono 2005: 91 stated that “Sample adalah bagian dari jumlah dan karakteristik yang dimiliki oleh populasi tersebut.” Sample is part of the number and characteristics possessed by this population. Mardalis 2007: 51 says that “Sampling atau sampel berarti contoh, yaitu sebagian dari keseluruhan individu