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CHAPTER III RESEARCH TETHODOLOGY

The current chapter elaborates the methodology of the study. It begins with the method which is applied in the study. Then, the next section deals with the object of the study. In the third section the instruments of the research is discussed. The next section talks about the data collection. The fifth section focuses on analyzing the data. The last one exposes the chronological steps of the study.

A. Research Tethod

Since this study dealt with sound production analysis, which focuses on the accuracy when Koreans produce labiodental fricatives, this research employed qualitative research. This study tries to see how accurate the sound to be produced. If we see the sources of data collecting, this study can be narrowed into document analysis. Document analysis is described as a method of research utilized to written or visual materials for the aim of identifying specified characteristics of the material or a project that focuses on analyzing and interpreting recorded materials within its own context Ary Razavieh, 2002. The videos were utilized as the main object to analyze types of errors in sound production done by the subject analysis, in this case the Korean singers. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 34 The forms of material that can be used in document analysis are various. It can be textbooks, newspapers, speeches, television programs, etc. In this case, this study employed video as the research subject. The videos were employed because the writer also wanted to see the lip movement and mouth to get clearer sound transcription. The videos were the form of music videos where the singers sang English songs in live performance. The subject within the videos is South Korean singer. The reason to employ live-performance music video is due to the absence of editing in their performance. So, the writer will obtain the real-condition data. The study focuses on their pronunciation when they meet labiodental fricatives. The result of the live-performance music video observation which is in the form of phonetic transcription becomes the data for the study. This study wants to see the accuracy of the subjects when produce the certain sounds, in this case are labiodental fricatives, by analyzing the sound production. Skehan argued that accuracy is a matter of how well the second language speaker produces the target language in relation to the rule system of the target language Ellis and Barkhizen, 2009. To see the accuracy, error analysis is employed. Ellis and Barkhizen 2009 stated “error analysis EA consists of a set of procedures for identifying, describing, and explaining learner errors.” It means that error analysis tries to discover the errors that occur in the live-performance video when the South Korean singers sing English songs. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 35 Corder 1974 distinguished error analysis into five steps, they are sample collecting, error identification, error description, error explanation, and the last is error evaluation. However, this study, which does not deal with the correction, limits the research until the fourth step.

B. Research Subjects