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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This chapter discusses the method of this study. There are five parts to be discussed in this chapter. They are method, population and subject of the study, research instrument, data gathering, research procedure, and data analysis.

A. Research Method

This research was survey research. According to Ary, Jacobs, and Razavieh 2002, survey research is a technique in research whose data are gathered by asking questions to a group or individuals. Groves, Fowler, Couper, Lepkowski, Singer, and Tourangean 2004a also state that a survey is one of the most methods that is commonly used in the social sciences. Its aim is to understand the social phenomena, the societies work and also to test theories of behavior. It means that a survey research is research that is used to understand the human behavior and characteristics of the target people. Survey research was applied in this research since this research was aimed to find out the implementation of mind-mapping technique in ER II and the students’ perception on the use of mind-mapping technique in ER II. In survey research, the data is gathered by observing the human behavior, interviewing the target people and recording their answers Groves et al., 2004b. Therefore, the data of this research were gained from observation, interview, and questionnaire.

B. Research Participants

The subjects or participants of this research were the lecturer and the students of ER II class of English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University. The observation was conducted to two classes of the ER II Class. They were class A and B. The researcher observed all the classes because each class had its own dynamics, students’ interaction and also its own characteristics. The lecturer also became the participant of the interview. The interview was conducted to know how mind-mapping was implemented in the class. Besides the lecturer, the participants of this research involved the students from two classes of the four ER II classes class A and B, academic year 2006. There were fifty-five students of both ER II classes. Most of the students were 4 th semester’s students. All of them were the research subject of this research.

C. Research Instruments

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