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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter presents detailed discussion about the methodology employed in this research. This includes the description of the research method, research
participants, research instruments, data gathering technique, data analysis technique and research procedure.
A. Research Method
Since this research is going to explore the students perception on the use of observation sheets in Microteaching classes and to gather any feedback the
students obtained from the use of observation sheets, the method used in this study is a survey research. A survey is a kind of research method for gathering
data ranging from physical counts and frequencies to attitudes and opinions by asking questions of a group of individuals called respondents Ary, Jacobs,
Razavieh, 2002. More about survey research, Wiersma 1995 explains that survey is also used to answer the study, which is related to social and emotional
aspects. Surveys are used to measure attitudes, opinions, or achievements. Survey
research is broad in scope including status quo studies to those in which the relationships of sociological and psychological variables are
determined and interpreted.Wiersma, 1995: 169-170
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perceptions, which Altman, et al. 1985 mention it as point of views, and its affects towards the students behaviour related to the teaching learning activities.
Survey study itself is defined as a process of collecting information from a group of people about a specific subject. In order to obtain the information, the
researcher collected the information from the respondent.
B. Research Participants
The respondents as sources of data of this research were the sixth semester students who were taking microteaching class in the academic year of 20082009
at the English Language Education Study Program. The students were supposed to have their observation sheets of their performance. In microteaching class, each
class has 25 students at maximum. However, considering the limitation of time and economic factors, the researcher took only five classes as the respondents
from six microteaching classes as the population as the most characteristic classes. They were classes B, C, E, F, and G. The researcher took 100 respondents from
those five classes as the subjects of this research.
C. Research Instruments
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