High School teachers had the most important and crucial role for making the students mastered those text types. The researcher discussed each type of text
including the social function, generic structure, and lexicogrammatical features used in each of the text besides the researcher also wrote one example for each
text so that the reader of the research achieved clear understanding of each of the text types.
Microteaching is a training concept that can be applied at various pre- service and in-service stages in the professional development of teachers Allen
Ryan: 1969. In microteaching the complexities of the real class are reduced. Microteaching has some fundamental elements those are decisions, structure,
pattern of training, the supervisor, microteaching students, and videotape
recording.
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
In this chapter, the researcher presented the research method, the research participants, the research instruments, the data gathering techniques, the data
analysis techniques, and the research procedure.
A. Research Method
The research used a mixed method, a combination of a quantitative research method and a qualitative research method. According to Cohen 1980,
quantitative research is defined as a social research that employs empirical methods and empirical statements. Cohen states that an empirical statement is
defined as a descriptive statement about what “is” the case in the “real world” rather than what “ought” to be the case. Typically, empirical statements are
expressed in numerical terms. Another factor in quantitative research is that empirical evaluations are applied. Empirical evaluations are defined as a form that
seeks to determine the degree to which a specific program or policy empirically fulfills or does not fulfill a particular standard or norm.
Moreover, Creswell 1994 defines quantitative research as a type of research that is explaining phenomena by collecting numerical data that are
analyzed using mathematically based methods in particular statistics. The research was considered as a quantitative research because the purpose of the
research was to generate numeric data to answer predetermined questions that was PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
what the microteaching students’ comprehension of text types were by testing 21 microteaching students of Sanata Dharma University. It was also in the condition
that the researcher provided a generalization as the result of the data gathered. The research was also considered a survey for most quantitative researches are.
On the other hand, the research was considered as a qualitative research because the researcher wanted to know the reasons of why some microteaching
students had low comprehension of text types by interviewing three informants taken from the previous participants. For deciding the informants, the researcher
used extreme cases by interviewing one informant who gained the highest score of the test and one informant who gained the lowest score of the test; for the reason
of providing more comprehensive findings, the researcher was also interviewing one informant gaining the median score of the test.
B. Research Participants
The researcher used two kinds of participants for accomplishing the research. The first participants were the participants for the test and the second
participants were the participants for the interview or the respondents.
1. Participants for the Test
The participants of the research were microteaching students of Sanata Dharma University. There were two groups of participants. The first group was
the participants of the Test I which was participated by 21 participants. The second group was the participants of the Test II which was participated by only 18
