24 singer when he sang a song in English. The videos did not use the process of editing
and it was as real as it was. In addition, from that originality the researcher was able to see the authentic process when the Japanese singer pronounced the English words.
The pronunciation of the Japanese singer was analyzed from the lip movement and mouth so that the clearer sound transcription could be interpreted.
B. Research Setting
The researcher conducted the research starting from 6 March 2015 until 30 April 2015. On 6 March 2015, the research was co
nducted at the researcher’s boarding house by downloading several live performance videos from youtube.
Then, the videos were watched and analyzed during two weeks, starting from 7 March 2015 until 21 March 2015. During two weeks, the researcher saw the process
of pronunciation when Japanese singer produced tense vowels and liquids. The next five weeks, starting from 21 March 2015 until 30 April 2015, the researcher
described the results of the analysis from the videos by making the table and comparing how Japanese singer made the sound of tense vowels and liquids to the
sounds in English. The researcher also did the revision from the results which had been described.
C. Research Subject
In conducting the study, the researcher used the Japanese singer as the subject of the research. The Japanese singer was a vocalist in a Japanese band named
L’Arc- en-Ciel. This band is a Japanese rock band, founded in Osaka in 1991. This band has
25 four members consisting of Hyde as the vocalist, Tetsuya as the bassist, Ken as the
guitarist and Yukihiro as the drummer. Those members are formed after several changes occurred in their group. On 1 April 1993, the band released their debut
album Dune on the independent, but well-known, record label Danger Crue. This was their first debut. Besides, they have debuted internationally in U.S. 2004 and
Europe 2006-2008. On 31 July 2004, LArc-en-Ciel made their North American debut at the anime convention Otakon. Then, when they were in Europe, they did
their performance in Paris, France. The subject was going to be analyzed through the live-performance videos of their concert in which there were not any
manipulation. The study used
L’Arc-en-Ciel’s singer as the subject because he has been considered as the singer who was popular in Japan and other countries. The singer
and the members also have debuted internationally. Besides, they have songs in English and from those songs, the researcher analyzed when the Japanese singer
sang those songs. This is one authentic example in which Japanese people use English.
D. Instruments and Data Gathering Technique
There were two instruments used to gather the data. The two instruments were:
1. Human Instrument
In this research, the researcher used human as the instrument in gathering the data. It was not the same as quantitative research, as Ary, Jacobs, and Razavieh
2002 stated that one major character which shows the difference between
26 qualitative and quantitative research is the condition in which human can be used as
primary instrument for gathering data, or human as instrument. Qualitative research in form of document analysis study which deals with human experiences and
situation need a flexible instrument to ensnare the complexity of both subject. Therefore, this study which deals with the situation where Japanese people speak
English as international language employs the researcher himself as the instrument to examine the phenomena happened in the subject.
2. The Videos of the Japanese Singer Performing English Songs
Since this study used document analysis, the documents which were obtained during the observation was also called research instrument. The documents were in
form of videos and they were specified to live-performance videos of Japanese singer. In the videos, the Japanese singer did live performance. There were no
editing process in their performance in which it will keep the authenticity of the sample. The songs which the Japanese speaker sings were English songs.
In gathering the data, the researcher used the videos as the data or documents to analyze. The researcher downloaded the videos in this case were live-performance
videos of Japanese singer from youtube. After that, the researcher tried to find the lyrics of songs which were sung by the Japanese singer and matched them to the
video, which part should be omitted, which part was repeated. It aimed to make the lyrics have exactly same part and sequence to the video. Then, the researcher found
the words containing tense vowels and liquids sounds. After that, the researcher transcribed the words based on the sounds produced in the video.
