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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter discusses several things which are; research method, research respondent, and research instrument.
3.1 Research Method
This research dealt with the problem that was stated in Chapter 1. The researcher wanted to see what influence that songs bring to
support students’ English developments of listening skill, speaking skill, and language elements.
Thus, survey research was used in the research. Survey research is a systematic method of collecting data from a population of interest. It tends to be quantitative
in nature and aims to collect information from a sample of the population such that the results are representative of the population within a certain degree of error The
Health Communication Unit, 1999. Furthermore, Kraemer 1991 as cited from Glasow 2005 identified three
distinguish characteristics of the survey research, First, survey research is used quantitatively describe specific aspects of a
given population. These aspects often involved examining the relationship among variables. Second, the data required for survey research are collected
from people and are, therefore, are subjective. Finally, survey research uses selected portion of the population from which the findings can be later be
generalized back to the population.
One of the reason that the researcher used surveys were because its capability to obtain information from large sample of the population McIntyre,
17 1999, p.74. Therefore, that capability was really needed to be able to get a big
number of the respondents.
3.2 Research Setting
The research was using purposive sampling to get the respondents. It was conducted in Sanata Sharma University, specifically in English Language
Education Study Program ELESP batch 2011 up to 2015. The respondents were 200 students with at least 20 students from each batch to represent the batch. The
data gathering took place outside the class such as Student Hall, “Lorong Cinta”, PBI’s T-Junction, and places where the ELESP students’ are used to hang out.
3.3 Research Respondents
The participants for the research were students of ELESP and also a lecturer from ELESP. The students
’ criteria for being the participant was the students must be a students of ELESP from the batch range of 2011 up to 2015. The respondents
were 200 students and taken from different batch to be able to get different point of view from different experience in learning English. The lecturer was selected to be
the interviewee because of his experience in using songs in the class to support the learning process.
3.4 Research Instruments
The research used two instruments to gather the data. The instruments were questionnaire and interview.
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