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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Research Type and Design
In this research, the researcher applied a descriptive qualitative method. By using descriptive qualitative method, the researcher only collected, classified,
analyzed the data and then drew a conclusion. A further explanation about qualitative research is also given by Cresswell 1998:15:
Qualitative research is an inquiry process of understanding based on distinct methodological traditions of inquiry that
explore a social or human problem. The researcher builds a complex, holistic picture, analyzes words, reports detailed views
of informants, and conducts the study in a natural setting.
Qualitative research was applied in this research because the data are not statistical data. Although there is a simple counting in this research, this counting
was only used as a medium to analyze the data and to make conclusions. For addition, the counting was also used in order to asses the translation quality.
In this research, the data are descriptive since the data are in the form of words, picture, rather than numbers Bogdan and Biklen, 1992: 30. Besides, this
research was not conducted to make any prediction and to prove or disapprove any hypothesis.
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The researcher employed a single embedded-case study since the researcher only focuses on a particular aspect. In this study, the researcher focused
on analyzing translation techniques applied by Google Translate and the quality translation in terms of accuracy and acceptability in translating the text on
en.wikipedia.orgwikiBoston_Tea_Party web page. Sutopo 2002:112 says that a research is called a single embedded-case study if it focuses on one characteristic.
B. Data and Source of Data
Data source refers to the subject from which the data can be obtained Arikunto 1997: 114. The source data of this thesis are all sentenceson
en.wikipedia.orgwikiBoston_TeaParty web page. The title of the article is Boston Tea Party. The article tells us about the culmination of a resistance
movement throughout British America
against the Tea Act
, which had been passed by the
British Parliament in 1773. The text was translated by Google
Translate. There are two types of data used in this thesis so called Primary data and
the secondary data. The primary data is all sentences in the article entitled Boston Tea Party and taken from en.wikipedia.orgwiki web page. The secondary data is
the scale given by the raters. The researcher took three raters to asses the translation quality of the text in terms of accuracy and acceptability. The raters
must posses several criteria to asses the quality. The researcher used questionnaire and distributed it to each raters.
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As stated before that the raters should posses several criteria so that they can asses the translation quality of the text. The criteria of the raters are shown
below: 1. Rater
- The raters are willing to participate in this research - The raters should master both languages, English and Indonesian
- The raters should have knowledge of translation - The raters should have practical experiences in translation
- The raters should capable of using internet services - The raters should know how to use Google Translate translation services.
2. Document Document is written source of data. Document used in this research as
source of data were all manual text English sentences and their translation, taken from an article text on en.wikipedia.orgwikiBoston_Tea_Party web page
C. Sampling Technique
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