Research Design Language Choice of members of Resimen Mahasiswa of University of Sumatera Utara

22 activity in supplying the data is an activity that takes place in stimulant with an activity in data analysis; the process is organized in cycles not linear. Of course, it is not release from the basic of qualitative research that the propose is to understand the phenomenon of social belonging to phenomenon of language which is being do. Therefore, in this method by seeing the participants’ culture, what participants see as important in behavior, physical or social environment, or other factors are done for doing this thesis. In addition, in analyzing the data, the descriptive method is relevant to be used in the process of the research. The procedure of descriptive theory is done by describing or explaining the data. As what Nawawi 1995:63 says “metode deskriptif dapat diartikan sebagai prosedur pemecahan masalah yang diselidiki dengan menggambarkan atau melukiskan keadaan subjek atau objek penelitian seseorang lembaga, masyarakat, dan lain-lain pada saat sekarang berdasarkan fakta-fakta yang tampak atau sebagaimana adanya”. The descriptive method can be meant as the procedure to solve the problem which is researched with describes the condition of subject or object of the research person, organization, society, etc in this time base on the concrete actual facts or the way of things exists. This is due to the data collected, analyzed, and presented descriptively. Descriptive method is different from other methods, such as prescriptive or other methods. Descriptive method has several characteristics, namely: 1. Not concerned about right or wrong subject studied. 2. An emphasis on the actual symptoms occur in the time of the study. 3. Usually not directed to test the hypothesis. 23 Descriptive method will only describe a variable, symptoms and conditions just the way it is. Nawawi 1995:61 states that method is a way which conducted in order to reach the goal, doing the research related to language attitude research, there are data, methods and designs of researchers that are used in order to make complete the research that will be explained further in this chapter. The design of this research is descriptive qualitative research. Based on the five characteristics of qualitative research as proposed by Bodgan and Bilken, this research will show the nature of the situation as it exists at the time of the collecting data and will be collected in words form.

3.2 Data and Data source

To do this research, the writer needs data and data source. The data source that are used in this research are the members of Resimen Mahasiswa of University of Sumatera Utara USU who come from different background of the study either in major of study of faculty in the campus life, more than 25 people. The data that are going to be analyzed in this research is taken from their utterances. Utterance does not have a precise linguistic definition. In doing a daily conversation, each turn by speaker may be considered an utterance. Utterances are sometimes used by linguists in research in order to get advancement of the study of language. Linguistics sometimes uses utterances to simply refer to a unit of speech under study. In this research also shown the relationship of language choice and language attitude between commandant to members, members to commandant, and members to members. Here is the members of MENWA of University of Sumatera Utara as the data source for this research: 24 NO. NAME FACULTY 1. Betaria Sinaga Public Health 2. Onny Rhenata P.Sinaga Law 3. Melda Eva Kristin Pakpahan Nursing 4. Andreas Napitupulu Agriculture 5. Redondo Lijuanda P.S Mathematics and Natural Sciences 6. Suci Fajar Zahriyani Social and Political 7. Ardiko Pardede Engineering 8. M.Azis Rizky Lubis Cultural Studies 9. Ijen Tumangger Engineering 10. M.Faris Yusuf Lubis Cultural Studies 11. Syaidina Ulul Pa’ji Daulay Cultural Studies 12. Ratih Novianti Irawan R. Economics 13. Pradana Nugraha Cultural Studies 14. Jefri Simbolon Cultural Studies 15. Halimah Tusakdiyah Economics

3.3 Research Instruments

There are two instruments used in collecting the data of the study which are, direct observation, and questionnaire. Further explanation about that is elaborated below: 1. Direct observation is prepared to investigate the situation and problem found during the Resimen Mahasiswa of University of Sumatera Utara training. 2. Questionnaire was conducted to investigate the improvement of language choice process and to analyze students, opinion on the language choice itself.