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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

In this chapter, I present detail information about the method used in this research. The discussion of the method was used to find out how to answer the research questions presented in chapter I. This chapter introduces the methodology that was employed for this experimental research and contains the research plans and its procedures and process to actualize the research plans. As an experimental research, this chapter is organized into research method, research setting, research population and sample, data gathering technique and instruments, data analysis, and the trustworthiness of the study.

A. RESEARCH METHOD

As what has been stated in the problem formulation, this research dealt with finding out how video project can promote students‟ speaking skill and how autonomous the learners in English through video project. In order to solve the problem, this research implemented mix method research as it combined both quantitative and qualitative research designs. This research implemented both experiment study and survey. The experiment study was to find out how effective video project to promote students‟ speaking skill and the survey was to find out how video project can promote students‟ learning autonomy. The quantitative data were from the data of pre-test and post-test scoring. The qualitative data were gathered from the closed-ended items in the questionnaire supported by the result of interview. 44 To describe the experimental method, not only the mean and standard deviation from the tests but also a statistical program such as SPSS program to see the changes of the results from the tests were given to Control Group and Experimental Group had to be applied. This study having an experimental design studied two groups: Experimental Group EG and Control Group CG. According to Neuman 2006: 252, an experimental design has seven part in which not all experiments have all these parts including treatment or independent variable, dependent variable, pretest, posttest, experimental group, control group, and random assignment. In this research, all parts except random assignment are fullfilled. In addition, the researcher made the research sequence and conclusion link to ease the research in the process of this study as follows. 45 Figure 3.1 Research Sequence Adapted from Oh, 2010 B. NATURE OF DATA A research needs data to be analyzed in order to answer the research questions. According to Neuman 2006: 8, data is the empirical evidence or information that one gathers carefully according to rules of procedures. Data can Conducting experiment Identify Target Groups Developing Video Project and Tests Items Conducting Posttest Controlexperimental grouping Conducting Pretest Blueprint for Interview and Questionnaire Synthesizing data Test Data Conclusion Conducting Interview and Questionnaire Script of Interview and Questionnaire Test Data 46 be qualitative or quantitative. Qualitative data is expressed as words, pictures, and objects while quantitative data is in numbers. In this research, I combined two kinds of data both quantitative and qualitative. Therefore, I organized the process of analyzing the data into categories on the basis themes or concepts. The quantitative data is used to control over management resulted from the test to answer the first research question and the qualitative data is used to provide information resulted from interview to answer the second research question. The experimental research intended to do research on the relationship between learners‟ speaking skill and video project; if the null hypothesis should be rejected.

C. RESEARCH SETTING