Research Design RESEARCH METHOD

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD

This chapter contains some crucial elements of research method related to the topic under discussion. It consists of research design, research setting, kinds and sources of data, data collecting technique, trustworthiness, and data analysis.

A. Research Design

Merriam 1998: 1 believes that choosing the research focused on discovery, insight, and understanding from the perspectives of those being studied offers the greatest promise of making significant contributions to the knowledge base and practice at education. Choosing a study design requires understanding the phylosophical foundations underlying the type of research, taking stock of whether there is a good match between the type of the research and your personality, attributes, and skills, and becoming informed as to the design choices available to you within the paradigm. The qualitative, interpretative, or naturalistic research paradigm defines methods and techniques most suitable for collecting and analyzing data. Qualitative inquiry, which focuses on meaning in context, requires a data collection instrument that is sensitive to underlying meaning when gathering and interpreting data. This study focues on identifying teachers‟ beliefs on the use of authentic materials to teach listening, the effect of teachers‟ beliefs and the implementation of authentic materials to teach listening. Qualitative case study is chosen as the design of this study. According to Merriam 1998: 19, a case study design is employed to gain in-depth understanding of the situation and meaning for those perpustakaan.uns.ac.id commit to user involved. The interest is in process rather than confirmation. It was an empirical inquiry that investigates a contemporary phenomenon within its real-life context, especially when the boundaries between phenomenon and context are not clearly evident. In addition, Cresswell 2008: 476 defines that case study is an in-depth exploration of a bounded system e.g. an activity, event, process, or individuals based on extensive data collection. Merriam 1998: 27 reveals that a qualitative case study is an intensive, holistic description and analysis of a single instance, phenomenon or social unit. The researcher aims to uncover the interaction of significant factors characteristic of the phenomenon by concentrating on a single phenomenon or entity the case. The case study focuses on holistic description and explanation. Yin in Merriam 1998: 29 adds that case study is a design particularly suited to situations in which it is impossible to separate the phenomenon‟s variables from their context. Since the data of this research appeared in words rather than numbers, the data are collected through some variety of ways observation, interview, questionnaire, and document analysis. Miles and Hubberman 1984: 21 propose the interactive model of data analysis to analyze the data that is in form of words. Therefore, the variables in this research will be analyzed by using interactive model that consists of data collection, data reduction, data display, and conclusion. commit to user

B. Research Setting