Research Method Research Participants

CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

This chapter discusses the method of this study. Moreover, this chapter would be divided into six parts. They are research method, research participants, research instruments, data gathering technique, data analysis technique, and research procedure.

3.1 Research Method

As what we have discussed in the previous chapter, someone’s perception may be different from another’s because it depends on someone’s experience and the way they see or interpret an event or a phenomenon. In addition, since this research aims to find out the students’ perceptions on play performance and the possible contributions of play performance for the students and it is related to the students’ experience when they joined the play performance course, the researcher conducts survey study as approach in this research. According to Fraenkel and Wallen in their book How to Design and Evaluate Research in Education 2009: 390, there are three major characteristics that survey possesses the most. Information is collected from a group of people in order to describe some aspects or charateristics such as abilities, opinions, attitudes, beliefs, andor knowledge of the population of which that group is a part. The way in which the information collected is through asking questions; the answers to these questions by the members of the group constitute the data of the study. Information is collected from a sample rather than from every member of the population Fraenkel and Wallen, 2009: 390 To find out the answers of the problems, which are the perceptions of the ELESP students on Play Performance course and the possible contributions of Play Performance course for the ELESP students as the English teacher candidates, the researcher applies survey research in this research and employs questionnaires and interviews as data-collection method.

3.2 Research Participants

The purposive sampling is used as the method of sampling. According to Cohen, Manion, and Morrison in their book Research Methods in Education 2000: 103, in purposive sampling, researchers handpick the cases to be included in the sample on the basis of their judgement of their typicality. Therefore, there are some characteristics of the research participants used in this research. The selected participants were 40 ELESP students year 2007 who had ever joined in the play performance. The 40 participants should answer 35 questions when the researcher conducted questionnaire. Then, to complete unclear data gained from the questionnaire, the researcher inteviewes 3 students’ participants.

3.3 Research Instruments