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CHAPTER 3 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Types of Research
This research belongs to qualitative research employing descriptive method. Qualitative research is a certain tradition in social science which fundamentally
depends on human’s observation Kirk and Miller 1986:9 in Moleong 2001: 3.
Besides, qualitative method is a research procedure which produces data descriptive in the form of words both oral and written from the observed object Bogdan and
Taylor in Moleong, 2001: 3. This study is qualitative because it uses linguistic information as data, particularly appraisal to analyze the attitude of the writer on the
editorial and opinion column published on The Jakarta Globe and The Jakarta Post Websites.
This research is also applied a descriptive method. This research tries to describe the phenomena that happen in the society. In descriptive method, the
researcher tries to collect data, to analyze data, and to draw conclusion without formulating a hypothesis Hadi, 1990. It is descriptive because it describes linguistic
phenomenon, i.e. how appraisal is applied to see how the attitude of the writer on the text of editorial and opinion published on The Jakarta Globe and The Jakarta Post
Websites.
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This research also applies a case study that it attempts to describe appraisal analysis between editorial and opinion column exposing issue of Ahmadiyah to see
how the writer describes the attitude and how the attitude influences the text which is published on Jakarta Globe and Jakarta Post Websites.
This research uses an approach based on Systemic Functional Linguistic introduced by M.A.K Halliday in 1960s which stresses its study on the language as
source of meaning that focuses the study on the discourse analysis. This research uses SFL because it characterizes the nature of data, data collection, analysis and
interpretation.
B. Research Location
The location of this research is in the form of text editorial and opinion published on The Jakarta Globe and The Jakarta Post Websites. The Jakarta Globe
is a daily English language newspaper in Indonesia, launched on November 12, 2008. Besides, The Jakarta Post is also one of the greatest English newspapers
published in Indonesia which was launched on 25 April 1983. This research takes opinion and editorial from both of media which raise the issue about Ahmadiyah. The
researcher collects the data and evaluates the texts which employ the issue about Ahmadiyah case. This research takes two texts from The Jakarta Globe and Two
texts from The Jakarta Post because sometimes the texts in different media also provide us with different views about the issue of Ahmadiyah case. This research
location satisfies what Spradley 1980 calls the primary element of research
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location: place or setting, actors or participant and events. The setting of this research is the website of Jakarta Post and Jakarta Globe taken four texts from opinion and
editorial column. The media contains actors, place, and time of happening. Actors cover all participants involving in the happening of Ahmadiyah case on Jakarta
Globe and Jakarta Post as online English daily news paper. Finally events are the happenings that occur in the editorial and opinion column published on the Jakarta
Globe and Jakarta Post Websites.
C. Data and Source Data
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