Research Method Research Setting Research Participants

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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

In this chapter, the researcher is going to provide basic information of the methodology. There are six major concerns presented in this chapter. Those are: research method, research setting, research participants, instruments and data gathering, data analysis technique, and research procedure.

A. Research Method

The researcher used document or content analysis technique to analyze the accuracy in a form of grammatical errors list of the students’ speaking production on the Critical Listening and Speaking, class B offered in semester four in the Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris of Sanata Dhama University. A content or document analysis is defined by Krippendorff 2004 as a research technique involving specialized procedures for making replicable and valid inferences from texts or other meaningful matter to the contexts of their use p.18. In this study, the document analyzed wa s in the students’ speaking production on the final presentation of the Critical Listening and Speaking, class B offered in semester four in the Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris of Sanata Dhama University in a form of recording that had been transcribed. The reason why the researcher used this methodology was because the data were transcribed recordings, which needed to be interpreted and analyzed. Nunan 1994 states that “document or content analysis focused on analyzing and interpreting material within its own context and it was defined as a research 19 method applied to written or visual materials for purpose of identifying specified characteristic material. ”

B. Research Setting

The research was conducted in 2012, in the Sanata Dharma University on the fourth semester and on the Critical Listening and Speaking, class B. The research was conducted on the last two meetings, which were the final presentation.

C. Research Participants

The participants were the fourth semester of the 2010 students on the Critical Listening and Speaking, class B of Sanata Dharma University. The total number of the students in the Critical Listening and Speaking, class B was forty-five students. The participants of the questionnaire were the whole class. The participants of the interview were ten students randomly selected based on their errors levels.

D. Instruments and Data Gathering