Research Procedure RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

F. Research Procedure

The researcher passed several steps in conducting a research. First, the research decided the topic and the subject of the study. The researcher formulated research problems related to the topic. Then, the researcher conducted survey by designing a set of questionnaire as the instrument for doing descriptive research. The questionnaire consisted of several statements used for answering the research problems. The researcher distributed the questionnaire to some friends as a trial first and after that the questionnaire was distributed to the ‘real’ respondents that were the students of Seminar on Language Teaching class. The researcher chose 40 students taken from 3 classes and the results of the questionnaires were classified into three categories. The researcher took two students who had higher scores and three students who had average scores based on the classification from the questionnaire results. The interview was conducted to reveal more detail information towards the use of individual presentation. Then, the researcher analyzed all the data gathered from the questionnaire and interview and correlated the findings to be presented and discussed. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 40

CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS

In this chapter, the writer presents and analyzes the data acquired by employing the research instruments: the questionnaires and interviews from the participants. The findings from the analyzed gathered data are discussed to answer two questions stated in the problem formulation. Therefore, there will be two discussions in this chapter. The first one is the discussion about what the students do for the individual presentation. It explains the process that the students passed before and during the individual presentation. The second one discusses students’ perception towards the use of individual presentation as a way to develop self-directed learning.

A. The Process of Individual Presentation

This section answers the first question in the problem formulation. This section is divided into two parts which are students’ preparation process and students’ delivery process.

1. Students’ Preparation Process

Researcher employed questionnaire to acquire the data about how students’ prepare for the individual presentation. The close-ended questions were used to measure students’ degree of agreement or disagreement on the statement and the open-ended questions were used to find detail explanation or information of certain PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI