language transfer, overgeneralization or other strategy of second language
learning.
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
In this chapter, the researcher discusses the research method used in this
study. Research is a careful study or investigation, especially in order to discover
new facts or information Hornby,1995:996 while methodology is a set of
methods used in a particular area of activity Hornby, 1995: 734. The intention
of this research is to get deep understanding of morphological and syntactic
errors in narrative English composition written by the students of Daarut Taqwa
Islamic boarding school Klaten. The researcher will respectively present: type of
the research, data and data source, method of data collection, data analysis and
theoretical framework.
A. Type of the Research
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The type of this study is descriptive qualitative research. Dornyei 2009:241
as cited by Fauziati says that in generaI qualitative research suggests just the
opposite of quantitative research. It often involves “data collection procedures
that result primarily in open‐ended, non‐numerical data which is then analyzed
by non‐statistical methods. While Brown, 2009:241 also as cited by Fauziati
says that qualitative research is often associated with hypothesis generating and
developing an understanding. It is inductive in nature; that is, it collects the data
through observation and then comes up with a theory to account for the data. It
looks for the hypothesis or theories which can explain the data collected or the
facts which are observed. Thus, it does not decide in advance what variables will
be important. Instead, it attempts to describe as fully as possible what is being
observed. In this sense qualitative research is interested more in the process, e.g.
what actually goes on in the classroom.
Fauziati cited Dornyei 2009:242 who presents the main characteristics of
qualitative research as follows:
1. Emergent Research Design. Most research texts starts with
highlighting its emergent nature, that is, no aspect of the research
design is tightly prefigured. A study is kept on open and fluid so that it
can corespond in a flexible way to new details or openings that
emerge during the process of investigation.
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2. The Nature of Qualitative Data. The data may include recorded
interviews, various types of texts i.e. field notes, journal and diary
entries, documents and images
B. Data and Data Source
The research was conducted in Daarut Taqwa Islamic boarding school in
Klaten for the 5th grade of KMI Kulliyatul Mu’allimien al Islamiyyah or the
second year grade of senior high school from November 2013 through April
2014. The
data of the present study consists of erroneous sentences taken form the narrative
English composition written by Fifth grade of KMI Islamic boarding school
Klaten in Academic Year 2013‐2014. The researcher had collected 338 erroneous
sentences from 70 narrative composition written by those students which
were collected from November 2013 till April 2014.
The data taken from the writing of the students’ composition has been
copied out and kept in a safe file
C. Method of Data Collection
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