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Learners’ Beliefs about pre-ESP Course
ICE Learners’ Beliefs about ICE Program in Duta Wacana Christian
University Language Learning
Beliefs
Motiva tion and
Expectati on in
Language Learning
Aptitude in
Language Learning
Difficulty in
Language Learning
Nature in Language
Learning Learning
and Communi
cation Strategies
Learning and
Communi cation
Strategies in
Learning English in
ICE Program
Nature in Learning
English in ICE
Program Difficulty
in Learning
English in ICE
Program Aptitude
in Learning
English in ICE
Program Motiva
tion and Expectati
on in Learning
English in ICE
Program
CHAPTER 3 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
In this
chapter, the
methodological framework
will be
described.Firstly,this chapter describes the research design. Next, the nature of data is elaborated. The third part discusses research setting and participants of this
research. Detailed descriptions of thedata collection techniques as well as data analysis are following. At the end of this chapter, an account of triangulation is
provided to provide the trustworthiness of the research.
A. Research Design
Considering the characters of beliefs that are complicated and indistinct, this study is constructed to apply both quantitative and qualitative research
method, which is known as mixed method, to bring out data for the analysis. As reported by Patton 2002, a quantitative research method can result to general
findings, while a qualitative research method can get thorough and detailed information. Qualitative research method answers the questions about why people
behave the way they do and how beliefs are formed. Thus, applying a mixed research method which is procedure for collecting, analyzing, and combining both
quantitative and qualitative data in a single study or in a multiphase series of studies Creswell, 2012: 22, will come to a triangulation to overcome the
weakness or intrinsic biases and the problems that come from single research method Ellis, 1994.
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B. Nature of Data
In conducting this research, I analyzed both the quantitaitve data and the qualitative data using the mixed method. Collecting the two kinds of data, I got
both in form of numbers and texts. The quantitative data is then used for getting the answer of what are the proportions of learners’ beliefs about the pre-ESP
course, then the qualitative data which is the interview is used for reconfirming the learners’ beliefs proportions. In mixing the two data, I could provide a a way
of ‘seeing and hearing’, beyond using them as only data for a research. Greene 2007 provied a devinition of mixed method as a different way of looking at the
social world. It can be functioned as an approach to think about designing documentaries.
C. Research Settings
This study is conducted in Introduction to College English ICE program of the language center Pusat Pelatihan Bahasa PPB Duta Wacana Christian
University Yogyakarta, Jl. Wahidin Sudiro Husodo 5-25 Yogyakarta during even semester 2016, done from February up to May 2016.
Duta Wacana Christian University is the only university in Yogyakarta the language center of which organizes an English matriculation program dedicated
for the freshmen whose English enrollment test results have not met the minimum requirement yet. The results are considered as a placement test for the students.
There are three levels provided; ICE 1 until ICE 3. ICE program is meant to prepare students to take the English for Specific Purpose ESP program in their
