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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

This chapter presents detailed information about methods used to answer the two major questions stated in chapter one. The discussion involves Research Participant, Research Instrument, Data Gathering Technique, Data Analysis Technique, and Research Procedure.

A. Research Method

In order to answer the questions stated in the problem formulation, the researcher employed a survey research. According to Wiersma 1995:169, “surveys are used to measure attitudes, opinion, or achievements-any number of variables in natural settings ”. In line with Wiersma, Sprinthall, Schmutte, and Sirois 1991:93 say that surveys can be used to obtain information about what people do or think. They state that survey is conducted from samples or population by using questionnaire and interview which contains questions about behaviour, opinion, attitudes, belief, or any number of psychological or sociological qualities. Since this research investigates the students‟ perceptions on the use of the Internet in English learning and the recommendations on the use of the Internet, survey is an appropriate research to be conducted. Thus, the results obtained are in a form of words rather than numbers. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 25

B. Research Participants

This research implemented cluster sampling. The rationale was the impossibility to survey the entire population of the second grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Yogyakarta as the participants since only one class was accessible for conducting the research. According to Ary, Jacobs, and Razavieh 2002, “cluster sampling is a group of individuals who are naturally together. And, these individuals have characteristics relevant to the variables of the study”. The research participants were the second grade of IPA 5 students of SMA Negeri 2 Yogyakarta of academic year 20082009. The participants for questionnaire were forty four students. And, the participants for interview were six students chosen by random sampling. According to Gay 1992:126, “random sampling is the process of selecting a sample in such a way that all individuals in the defined population have an equal and independent chance of being selected for the sample”. In other words, every individual has the same probability of being selected to be interviewed.

C. Instrument

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