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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
A. Research Approach
This study was descriptive research that focuses on the analysis of proper noun. Moleong 2001: 4, states that qualitative research is a research, which
describes and produces descriptive data consisting of written and spoken words. The data were taken from both the English-Bahasa Indonesia The Enchantress
The Secret of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel texts. According to Arikunto 1993: 208, there is no hypothesis in descriptive
research as it only describes a phenomenon without making any hypothesis. Thus, in descriptive qualitative method, the researcher only described a phenomenon
without any hypothesis. The researcher collected the data, analyzed them, and drew a conclusion without making generalization.
This research applied content analysis. According to Weber in Moleong 2006: 220 defines content analysis as a research methodology that utilize asset
of procedures to get the valid conclusions from book or documents. It includes data source, instrument, data collection, data analysis, and trustworthiness of data.
B. Data and Data Sources
The research data were taken from the English-Bahasa Indonesia The Enchantress The Secret of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel texts written by
Michael Scott, published by Random House Inc. on May 22, 2012. The data focused on the phenomena of proper nouns. The phenomena of the proper nouns
which occurred in the novel were collected by the researcher. The data were rechecked by the other researcher to make sure the data were correct. The data
collection of proper nouns was categorized depended on the use of techniques which appeared in the novel. The researcher tried to analyze it from both
languages, and then he identified the effects of the techniques to the meaning equivalent.
C. Data Collections
The researcher did some steps to collect the data of the study. The steps were:
1. First, read both English and Bahasa Indonesia The Enchantress The Secret of
The Immortal Nicholas Flamel texts; 2.
Second, the researcher collected the phenomena of proper noun which appeared on both English and Bahasa Indonesia novel;
3. Third, the researcher rechecked the data to make sure that the data were
focused on the first time data appeared in the novel, the second and the third times were ignored;
4. Forth, the researcher asked the other reseacher to recheck the data to make
sure that the data were correct. Finally, the researcher got the English of The Enchantress The Secret of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel as Text 1, and the
Bahasa Indonesia translation of The Enchantress The Secret of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel as Text 2.
After the two texts were collected, the data were taken from both texts were words and phrases containing the proper nouns.
D. Research Instruments
There were two kinds of instruments used in this study concerning the method of collecting data.
The two instruments were: 1.
The researcher The instruments of this research are the researcher himself and the data
classification lists types of proper noun. The research uses the table as the data sheet, which consisted types of techniques of proper noun and total
frequency of the occurrence proper noun. In this research, the researcher read the novel in English and Bahasa Indonesia version, then took the data of both
versions, and classified the data. 2.
Data sheet The secondary instruments in this research were the data sheets to collect
the data from the words and the phrases in the novel. The data sheet is illustrated below.
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