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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter will discuss the method of this study. It consists of research design, research site and participant, data collection, and data analysis. The discussion
will be begun by identifying the research method of this study. Afterwards, the setting, participants, and data collection techniques covering analyzing students’
argumentative essays, analyzing students’ multiple-choice test result and
analyzing the data from the interview will also be discussed.
3.1 Formulation of Problem
The main point of the study was to investigate the grammatical errors made by the students of the English Education Department in one of state
universities in Bandung. Therefore, this study focused on answering the formulated question as follows:
a. What kinds of grammatical errors made by the undergraduate students of the
English Education Department in one of state universities in Bandung in writing an argumentative essay?
3.2 Research Method 3.2.1 Research Design
To answer the questions on what kinds of grammatical errors made by the undergraduate students of the English Education Department in one of state
universities in Bandung in writing an argumentative essay, this study used qualitative method in order to identify, analyze, describe, and interpret the data to
reflect how much the students understand and absorb the knowledge of Basic English Grammar and how good the students implement it in writing an
argumentative essay with good grammar accuracy. Descriptive qualitative method is an ideal method as it is fundamentally interpretive Creswell, 2012. Besides,
Creswell 2012 defines qualitative research as any kind of research that has no
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means of statistical procedures or other means of quantification. Besides, Fraenkl and Wallen 2012 describe qualitative research as the method to investigate the
quality in terms of relationships, activities, materials, or situations and conditions. This study particularly used descriptive design. Best and Khan 1989
cited from Suherman 2011 state that descriptive method is to describe, record, analyze and interpret circumstances that appear in particular group. Moreover,
according to Gay 2003, descriptive method determines and reports just how the ways things are, while the researcher has no control over the variable that was
being researched. Meanwhile, Fraenkl and Wallen 2012 give an explanation about descriptive method as a method used to explain, analyze and classify
something by using several techniques, such as; survey, interview, questionnaire, observation and text.
3.3 Data Collection 3.3.1 Research Participants
