1.4.1 coding;
Coding means to change the information into symbols either in letter or in number. It is necessary to organize the data and to make them easier to be analyzed. Here, I
transcribed phonetically the students’ pronunciation into phonetic transcription based on Hornby’s Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary of Current English. The
students’ errors in pronouncing weak form can be identified after listening to the students’ pronunciation from the recorded data for several times.
1.4.2 organizing;
After the data were coded, they must be organized. The data, which are not organized properly, will be difficult to be read and understood. After I identified the students’
errors in pronouncing weak form, I then grouped them into separate divisions, the correct pronunciation and the incorrect pronunciation.
1.4.3 calculating;
After the students’ errors in pronouncing weak form had been grouped into separate division, I employed the percentage of each kind of weak form errors. Norris
2001:24 suggested that I use Preselected Category Approach as follows:
∑ ∑
; where,
= the percentage of each kind of weak form errors, ∑
= the sum of frequency of each kind weak form error occurrence, and ∑
= the sum of various kinds of weak form errors.
The next step is counting. The writer employed the percentage descriptive analysis to count all errors by using a simple formula as follows:
∑ ∑
; where,
= the percentage of each kind of weak form errors, ∑
= the sum of various kind weak form error occurrence, and ∑
= the sum of weak form errors.
1.4.4 tabulating;
It is an activity of summarizing all data that are put into a table. It can be done only when the coding, the organizing, and the counting of the data are finished.
Sometimes the counting of the data can be done at the same time with tabulation. The data that have been analyzed will give us an abstract description about the
matter we wish to know. The result of the data analysis will answer the problems of the study as stated in Chapter I.
1.5 Criterion for Interpreting the Data
Kategori