Research Design RESEARCH METHOD

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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD

This chapter presents all aspects related to the research method. The presentation of this part starts from the research design and goes to other sub-chapters namely research procedures for collecting data, and techniques of data analysis.

A. Research Design

Silverman 2005:6 states that the qualitative method is the most appropriate method if someone wants to conduct research exploring people life‟s history or every day behavior. Therefore the method used in this study is qualitative method because one of the activities in the study is conducting needs analysis and situation analysis that are related to people‟s behavior. In qualitative research, according to Richards and Schmidt 2002:565, there is a way of collecting data called triangulation. It is the process of collecting data from several different sources or in different ways in order to provide a fuller understanding of a phenomenon. Richards 2001:59, furthermore, explains that it is advisable to conduct triangulation triangular approach in employing needs analysis since any one source of information is considered partial. Conducting triangulation is not only useful to employ needs analysis, but it is also useful to employ situation analysis. Both of these analyzes provide all necessary data for adapting the syllabus. However, before adapting the syllabus, all data, which are taken from needs analysis and situation analysis using triangulation, are analyzed using a technique called content analysis and certainly based on learning-centered approach. This technique, according to Krippendorff 2004:17, is a repertoire of methods of research that promise to yield inference from all kinds of verbal, pictorial, symbolic, and communication data. After all data have www.eprints.undip.ac.id © Master Program in Linguistics, Diponegoro University 23 been analyzed, they will be the rationales behind all activities of adapting the syllabus. The new adapted syllabus will be applied in one conversation class then. In the end of the class, Evaluation is conducted by distributing questionnaires to the students and recording their talking time together with the teacher‟s talking time. All of the previously mentioned stages are generally described in the following flowchart. Figure 3.1. The Research Design

B. Research Procedures for Collecting Data