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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter summarizes six main parts related to methodology used in this research. In order to clearly give understanding upon the research, the researcher
categorizes these parts into the research method, the research setting, the research participants, the instrument and data gathering technique, the data analysis
technique and the research procedure.
A. Research Method
This research utilized a survey method because the researcher tried to infer the results from the sample of the population. The intent of this research was to
determine whether 116 students of batch 2011 had varied mastery of stress placement of English suffixed words. The first research problem was about the
perception of the students with regard to English stress and the second was students’ mastery of the stress placement of English words ending with -ic, -ion, -ity, and -
eous suffixes. According to Creswell 2009, a survey is a method in which the researcher studies the population or the sample and tries to make numeric
descriptions of the result p. 145. A survey research, according to Ary, Jacobs, Sorensen, and Razavieh 2010 is broadly applied by researchers to investigate
specific attitudes, trends or problems of a certain population or a sample within the time constraint p. 414. As what has been proposed by Creswell 2009, a survey
is best used since the design is cost-effective p. 146. Likewise, Johnson and
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population through the use of sample data p. 217. Therefore, the survey helped the researcher answer both research questions.
To conduct the survey, the researcher utilized a questionnaire in the first place in order to arouse students’ alertness towards the research topic. Following this
through, an oral test was used as the primary instrument to answer the second research question. By giving the participants an oral test, the researcher could hint
at the mastery of the stress placement of English suffixed words among ELESP students. As what Johnson and Christensen 2012 write, a combination of
instruments can yield a quality result p. 195.
B. Research Setting
The research was conducted at Sanata Dharma University, on May 26 and 30, and on August 26, 2014. On May 26, the researcher did the first questionnaire
distribution to 110 ELESP students of batch 2011. Then, on May 30, the researcher distributed the questionnaire to six ELESP students of batch 2011. Since it was
highly impractical to continue the research due to the end of the semester, the researcher decided to postpone the oral test until September 2014. On September
25, 2014, the oral test was administered in Multimedia Laboratory. The researcher, who acted as the test administrator, directly supervised the oral test.
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C. Research Participants
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