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achievement between the experimental group and the control group in the final test.
The researcher compares the students’ writing in every meeting. She observes whether the writing is improved or not during the treatment. The
researcher also tries to find grammar mistakes and the vocabularies used by the students in their writing. If the writing is becoming better and better, it means that
the use of diary in teaching writing is effective.
CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter consists of six subtopics. The first subtopic explains about the method used by the researcher, and then it is followed by the participants of the
research, the research instrument, the data gathering techniques, and data analysis techniques. The last subtopic is the research procedures.
3.1 Method
There were two questions formulated in the problem formulation. The first question was aimed to identify what the contribution of using diary to develop
students’ writing of the fourth graders of Kanisius Notoyudan Yogyakarta Elementary School was. Second, it was to gain the students’ perceptions towards
the use of diary. In order to answer the first question i.e. about the contribution of diary to
the students’ writing skill, the researcher conducted mixed-quantitative-qualitative research. The quantitative research was conducted when the researcher treated the
experimental group by asking its members to write diary based on the guidance questions; whereas, the qualitative research was conducted when the researcher
analyzed the students’ writing by comparing the writings of the experimental group to the writings of the control group. This research was an experimental
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The definition of mixed-quantitative-qualitative is presented by Bazeley 2002 which cited in http:www.researchsupport.com.anMMIssues.pdf.
According to Bazeley 2002, mixed-quantitative-qualitative is the combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches to research, could be on the basis of the
type data used in the research, the logic employed, the type of investigation, the method of analysis, the approach to explanation, and for some on the basis of the
presumed underlying paradigm. There are some definitions of quantitative and qualitative research.
According to Ary, Jacobs, and Razavieh 1990: 24 - 25, quantitative research is a research which uses objective measurement and statistical analysis of numeric
data to understand and explain phenomena. In quantitative research there is also a well-controlled setting. However, related to this research, the researcher use
quantitative research in the way of getting the data i.e. conducting an experiment to the participants.
Afterwards, Brown and Rodgers 2002: 10-12 stated the definition of qualitative research. Qualitative research is a research which is based on non-
numerical data. The data analyzed in the qualitative research is inductive data. It means that there will be word description in the data analysis rather than
numerical data. Another definition of qualitative research comes from Ary, Jacobs, and
Razavieh 1990: 22-28. They state that qualitative research is a research which focuses on understanding of a social phenomenon and is conducted in a natural
