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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research Method
Field research is used in collecting the data. The method of the study that used is quantitative method. Quantitative method is a method of analyzing data by
choosing the population and sample and using questioner to collect the data Suyanto 2005: 135.
The research has conducted at English Department in Faculty of Letters in University of Sumatera Utara with the students from three batches 2005, 2006,
and 2007 as the samples.
3.2 Population and Sample
Webster 2003:966 states that a population is group of individual persons, objects, or items from which samples are taken for measurement while a sample is
a finite part of statistical population whose properties are studied to gain information about the whole.
The population of this research is 100 students from English Department in Faculty of Letters. Those students become the respondents who took the
questionnaires. The members of question for data are 50 questions. From the total amount of the population, I took sample by using Simple Random Sampling.
Simple Random Sampling is techniques that involve an unsystematic random selection process.
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Simple Random Sampling involves the identifying procedure on every element in the sampling frame and choosing them based on any planned process
that also ensures that every element has an equal opportunity of being selected. When sampling frames are too large for slips of paper in a hat or some similar
procedure, a random number table can be used Dane 1990: 297
3.3 Data Collecting Method
In collecting the data, some steps that are used mainly: 1. Choosing the population and sample for the research randomly.
2. Giving questioners to the sample. 3. Collecting questioners from the sample.
3.4 Data Analysis Method
The data are analyzed by examining the answer that have made by English Department Students in University of Sumatera Utara by using Bungin’s Theory
2005:172 The formula is n =
100 x
N fx
. n = Percentages of the answers
fx = The amount of each kind of answer N = Total amount of answer
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CHAPTER IV DATA ANALYSIS
