THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK LITERATURE REVIEW
attitudinal questions. Therefore, the survey design was considered as the most appropriate for this research since the research design was intended to gain factual
information and behavior questions related to the students‟ vocabulary learning strategies.
The survey design was aimed at obtaining and discovering students‟
vocabulary learning strategies adopted in IPALL. Conducting a survey design provided various data since both qualitative and quantitative data were gathered
from this design using the questionnaires and interviews Cohen et.al, 2000:171. Eventually, results form the analyzing the data “lie in the appeal to
generalizability or universality within given parameter, its ability to establish the degree of confidence which can be placed in a set of findings” Cohen et.al,
2000:171. Therefore, the results from the survey design, from both the questionnaire and the interview, aimed at establishing the general opinions on the
use of IPALL to enhance students‟ vocabulary learning strategies.
In this research, qualitative and quantitative data were used. The quantitative data were obtained from questionnaire which contains of the list of
category of vocabulary learning strategies. The qualitative data such as open- ended interview provided various perspectives on the topic and a complex picture
of situation. The qualitative data in this study were used to obtain the facts and students‟ opinion about the use of IPALL to enhance vocabulary learning.
According to Creswell 2012:535 the quantitative data were specific numbers that can be statistically analyzed, could produce results to assess the frequency
and magnitude of trends, and provide information to describe trends about a large number of people. Therefore, combining both qualitative and quantitative data
provided a very powerful combination that allows the researchers dev elop „a
complex‟ picture of social phenomenon Greene Caracelli, 1997:7 as cited in Creswell, 2012. Related to the notion, the quantitative data were also gathered to
provide information about the frequency of trends in the context of the use of IPALL to enhance vocabulary learning strategies. Collecting and analyzing both
qualitative and quantitative data in this research aimed at providing complete data and elaborating them to answer the research questions.