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activities. Besides giving an additional background of classroom management, the
researcher notes the issues on classroom management, the specific problems on classroom management in the theoretical description in order to understand
common problems on classroom management. Furthermore, the recent research on classroom management is described and summarized on the theoretical
description to help the researcher understand common problems on classroom management as well. In other words, the issues, the specific problems, and the
summary of the recent research on classroom management give the researcher additional knowledge about common problems on classroom management before
the researcher constructs the questionnaire using four components of classroom management.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter discusses the methodology used in this research. It consists of six sections, namely the research method, the research setting, the research
subject, the research instruments and data gathering techniques, the data analysis technique, and the research procedure.
A. Research Method
This research aims to find the English Language Education Study Program practice teaching students’ classroom management problems during the School
Practice Program and the solutions to the problems. Therefore the researcher used descriptive research. As mentioned in Gall, Gall, and Borg 2003, descriptive
research is a type of quantitative research that involves in making careful descriptions of educational phenomena. It is also stated that a research question
“what is” is very concerned with the term of descriptive study. Furthermore, the researcher used a survey as the research design. Survey research is a type of
research in which a researcher can gain responden ts’ opinion, belief, experience,
and perception Fraenkel Wallen, 2009. Considering the objectives of this research, descriptive research that used a survey as the research design was the
most appropriate one to gain those insights. Moreover, the survey used in this research was a cross-sectional survey because it collected information from
samples that have been drawn from a predetermined population.
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B. Research Setting
The research was conducted in the even semester of the 20142015 academic year. It took place at the English Language Education Study Program of
Sanata Dharma University and online by using a Google form questionnaire. The researcher opened an online questionnaire on 26
th
of June 2015 up to 2
th
of July 2015. Since it received low responses, the researcher also distributed printed
questionnaires on 29
th
of June up to 4
th
of July 2015 at the English Language Education Study Program environment and in the library of Sanata Dharma
University. Moreover, interviews were conducted on 4
th
and 5
th
of July 2015 at PGSD Student
Hall and the interviewees’ house.
C. Research Subject
In this research, the researcher selected the students of the ELESP who have ever experienced the School Practice Program subject as the intended
subjects. In addition to the following requirement, therefore, the subjects of this research were the students of the English Language Education Study Program
batch 2011 as the School Practice Program is offered in both seventh and eighth semester. In choosing the respondents, the researcher used a convenience
sampling method. The reason why the researcher used a convenience sampling method was because the students in the batch 2011 were in the last semester
which meant that most of them had not had credits left on subjects to take. It was not doable for the researcher to use either a random sampling or a systematic
nonrandom sampling method.
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extremely difficult or sometimes even impossible to select either a random or a systematic non-random sampling, a researcher may use a convenience sampling.
Nevertheless, before deciding to use the convenience sampling method, the researcher also opened an online questionnaire on Google form which was shared
on the Facebook group of the ELESP students in the batch 2011. However, it received low responses. In such impossibility to use either a random sampling or a
systematic nonrandom sampling method, the researcher decided to select the convenience sampling as the sampling method along with the online questionnaire
which received low responses.
D. Research Instruments and Data Gathering Techniques
This section describes two research instruments used in this research and the data gathering techniques. The research instruments are a questionnaire and an
interview. In addition, the data gathering techniques explain how the researcher collected the data from the intended research subjects using the selected sampling
method.
1. Research Instruments
The instruments used in this research were a questionnaire and an interview. The questionnaire was to answer the first research problem while the
interview was to answer the second research problem. The detailed description of the instruments can be seen as follows:
