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CHAPTER 3. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY
According to Hornby, method means ―orderliness, way of doing
something ‖ 1987:533. When we talk about method, we offend how to choose
―the participants‖ and ―how treatment is to be administered‖ Mackey and Gass, 2005:40. The participants here refer to the data itself. Then, methodology is
―science or study of method‖, or ―set of methods used in working at something‖ Hornby, 1987:533. Hence, this third chapter discusses the order of several steps
in doing the research. This chapter elaborates research type and strategy as well as data collection, processing, and analysis.
3.1 The Type of Research
In this study, qualitative type of research has been conducted. As what the name is, this relates to quality. This means that in-depth and rich data related to
the structure, pattern, and how something is have to be provided Litosseliti, 2010:52. When structure and pattern are offended, the regular way something is
organized has to be explored. Therefore, we have to be really closed to the data. Moreover, qualitative research is a kind of inductive research Litosseliti,
2010:52 . The inductive research means ―method of reasoning which obtains or
discovers general laws from particular facts or examples‖. This enables ―production of facts to prove a general statement‖ Hornby, 1987:434. In other
words, this research goes from specific things to general ones. Additionally, qualitative research is based on interpretation. This
concludes explanation making clear the meaning of something. Besides, the
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are brought into clearly understood things. Therefore, qualitative research is practiced.
3.2 Research Strategy
Strategy aims to the plan to accomplish the goals over a period of time. This research conducts documentary as the strategy. According to McCulloh,
documentary research means that the data collected is from documentary sources such as papers, newspapers, and so on as cited in Marlangen, 2014:24.
Documentary sources can be in the form of either printed or soft file. In doing this research, several articles, books, and journals are very helpful. Documentary as
the strategy allows providing detailed descriptions of language use in a specific setting in the three chosen news articles. The focus is on the grammatical features.
They are participants and the processes. This strategy enables me to see the linguistic accuracy for the grammatical forms Mackey and Gass, 2005:171.
3.3 Data Collection
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