CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research Method
Nawawi 1995: 61 states that method is a way which is conducted in order to reach the goal. In writing the thesis, the writer used a descriptive method as what
Saifuddin 1998: 7 says “Penelitian deskriptif bertujuan menggambarkan secara sistematis dan akurat fakta dan karakteristik mengenai populasi atau mengenai
bidang tertentu” Descriptive research aims to describe systematically and accurately facts and characteristics of population or of the certain field.
3.2 The Population and Sample
Webster 2003: 966 states that a population is a group of individual persons, objects, or items from which samples are taken for measurement while a sample is a
finite part of statistical population whose properties are studied to gain information about the whole. The subject of this research was texts of interview that the writer
recorded from Metro TV channel. The writer took five interviews only as the sample in a week from Monday to Friday. Arikunto 2005: 97 says “Sampling bertujuan
adalah teknik sampling yang digunakan peneliti memiliki pertimbangan- pertimbangan tertentu di dalam pengambilan sampelnya.” Purposive Sampling is
technique of sampling that is used by researcher when researcher has consideration in taking the sample.
They are:
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1 Timothy Marbun Reporter and Rio Haryanto Guest Star Date: Monday, December 29, 2008
Time: 07.15 p.m. 2 Timothy Marbun Reporter and Agat Sidarimarsono Guest Star
Date: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Time: 07.15 p.m.
3 Timothy Marbun Reporter and Tondi Lubis Guest Star Date: Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Time: 07.15 p.m. 4 Timothy Marbun Reporter and Ikhsan Mojo Guest Star
Date: Thursday, January 1, 2009 Time: 07.15 p.m.
5 Timothy Marbun Reporter and Darmadi Darmawangsa Guest Star Date: Friday, January 2, 2009
Time: 07.15 p.m.
3.3 Methods of Collecting Data
The methods of collecting data that are used in this thesis mainly: 1. The interviews were recorded.
2. The interviews were transcribed. 3. Every sentence containing speech errors in the interviews were notated by
numbering.
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3.4 Methods of Analyzing Data
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