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D. Data Gathering Technique
As explained before, this research deals with two major problems
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To solve those problems, this study would gather the data with the following
technique
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The researcher started to conduct this study at SMK N 1 Depok Yogyakarta
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Before distributing the questionnaire, a permission letter to conduct this study was sent to the authorized department at SMK N 1 Depok
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The students were informed about the objectives and the significance of this study when the
researcher distributed the questionnaire
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They were also asked to state their very honest responses and answers
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The researcher also asked the students if they needed any clarifications, they could ask the researcher
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After the students finished filling out the questionnaire, they were requested to recheck their
responses for incompleteness or missing answers
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To conduct the interview session, the researcher selected 10 students as interviewees
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As explained earlier, those 10 students were selected based on their responses to the questionnaire in section B
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In section B of the questionnaire, the students were asked to answer a question on whether or not they were interested
in attending more English language training courses to improve their English proficiency
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The 10 students who responded the question by “yes” were selected
randomly as interviewee
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The interviewees were informed that their answers
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To record the interviewees, the researcher used a digital voice recorder and a notebook
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E. Data Analysis Technique
The data collected in the present study was of two types, quantitative and qualitative
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The quantitative data of the questionnaires were analyzed in terms of frequencies, means, and standard deviation
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Frequency shows the number of times an event occurs
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In this study, frequency was used to analyze how many times a certain item in the instrument
was answered by “strongly agree” or “strongly disagree”
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The sum of the frequency would be used to help the researcher answer the research problems
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Mean also known as average is obtained by dividing the total sum of observed values by the number of observations
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To calculate mean, the researcher use this formula:
Later, the mean would be used to calculate the standard deviation
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A low standard deviation indicates that the data points tend to be close to the mean, while a high
standard deviation indicates that the data is spread out over large range of values
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To calculate standard deviation, the researcher used this formula:
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was used
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In the analysis process, the interviewees’ responses to each question were firstly translated into English and then transcribed
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After that, the responses were analyzed in terms of themes related to the study objectives
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F. Research Procedure
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