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CHAPTER III METHOD OF RESEARCH
The term of “method‟ refers to some steps that be done by researcher, which will be taken in conducting the study. The steps are as follows:
3.1 Research Design
There are two kind of research which went commonly used in educational research. There are qualitative and quantitative research. In this research, the writer use quantitative
research to conducts the test to collect the data to find a descriptiv e study about the student‟s
error of using Pronouns. First, the writer conducts test to the sixth grade students of SD N 068003 Medan. It has 65 students, the result of the test are use as the primary data of this
research. The test will be data collection. When the data are collected, they are classified based on its errors sources. From those data the writer will do the analysis, and there will be data
analysis to come to conclusion. The design of this study was descriptive qualitative research. As stated by Gay and Airasian 1987:11 descriptive research involves collecting data in order to
test hypotheses or answer question relates to the current status of the object of the study. A descriptive study determines and reports the thing. It means that descriptive study, the research
happen naturally, and the research has no control over the condition and the situation, and can only measure what already exist.
Nawawi 1991: 30 states Library research is carried out by accumulating all the data from the various literatures either in library or the other places that provides the data which are
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needed for the analysis of this thesis. In addition qualitative research is the relevant theories to analysis the data. Also Nawawi 1992: 63 states that the descriptive method can be meant as the
procedure to solve the problem which is researched with describes the condition of subjectobject of the research person, organization, society and etc in this time base on the concrete actual
facts or the way of things exists. According to Key 1997, descriptive research is used to obtain information concerning the current status of the phenomena to describe what exists with respect
to variables or conditions in a situation. The researcher uses descriptive analysis technique percentages as the procedure to analyze the data. Descriptive research provides a detailed
profile of an event, condition or situation using either quantitative, qualitative or a combination of methods. Data gathering techniques such as field research and case studies are for qualitative
descriptive research. Descriptive qualitative is used to make description accurately and systematically. Arikunto 2006 says that quantitative research applies number from collecting
the data, describing the data, until the result of the research. Moreover, the result of the research would be better by applying table, graph, draft, picture, etc.
3.2 Data and Data Source
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