Research Design Unit of analysis Source of Data

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD

In this research, the researcher tried to do a case study. So, the result of this research could not be used to represent students of English Department from other universities.

3.1 Research Design

According to Isaac and Michael 1987: 18 states that qualitative method is a method to describe systematically the facts and the characteristics of given phenomenon or area of interest, factually and accurately. The collected data were the subject’s experiences and perspectives. The qualitative research attempts to arrive at a rich description of people, objects, events, places, conversations, and so on. The research was included in descriptive qualitative method, because the collected data were in the form of utterances which contain pronunciation errors include slips of the tongue and pronunciation problems which were spoken by the fourth semester students of Faculty of Humanities of Dian Nuswantoro University in academic year 20092010 who conducted Tourism final examination. In this case Tourism final examination was organized in 16 June 2009. The researcher aimed at describing pronunciation errors occurring in the fourth semester students of English Department of Dian Nuswantoro University in academic year 20092010 who conducted Tourism final examination.

3.2 Unit of analysis

The unit of analysis of this research was the inappropriate utterances which contain pronunciation errors such as pronunciation problems and slip of the tongue which were made by some students. For the pronunciation problem such as in the word “temperature” [ ˈtemprǝtʃǝr] pronounce the temperature” [ ˈtemprǝtur], and for the example of slip of the tongue we could see in the following example such as in pronouncing the word “take” [te ɪk] became bake [be ɪk], and etc.

3.3 Source of Data

The data of this research were taken from a transcription from the original video of the fourth semester students of Faculty of Humanities of Dian Nuswantoro University in academic year 20092010 who conducted Tourism final examination. In this case Tourism final examination was organized in 16 June 2009 with the final destination is Mount Bromo, East Java. The participants of this examination mostly from the fourth semesters students which numbered about 40 people. The researcher determined the object of this research randomly and only took five students of the fourth semester students to be analyzed because the five students of forty students are considered represent enough as the sample of this research. This examination requires the participants had to act as if a tour guide who briefed the foreign tourists. Automatically when giving the explanation, the participants had to use English. In addition, righteously a tour guide participants in this examination also told uniqueness of each area, it could be food, customs, and history of the area. The speech duration of each participant to explain the material is minimum 10 minutes.

3.4 Techniques of Data Collection