Research Methodology

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This chapter deals with some aspects of methodology used to guide the present study. Several points to discuss are research design, population and sample, research site, procedures, as well as instrument for collecting data. To complete the discussion, this chapter also reviews the technique of data analysis and ethical considerations.

3.1         Research Design
          Relevant to the research purpose and research question, a qualitative study was applied in this research. According to Frankel et al (2012, p. 86) “qualitative research is that they are typically not stated at the beginning of a study, but rather they emerge as a study progresses”. In this study, the writer applied qualitative method. Fraenkel, Hyun & Wallen (2012, p. 426-427) state that “qualitative research is the collection, analysis and interpretation of comprehensive narrative and visual data in order to gain insights into a particular phenomenon of interest”. The writer choose the qualitative method in the research by means to obtain the data by simply watching the participants, understand and interpreting the data without altering and manipulating it.
      Meanwhile, Fraenkel, Hyun & Wallen (2012, p. 426-427) have described that there are at least five main features in type of qualitative research. They are: 1) the natural setting is the direct source of data, and the researcher is the key instrument in qualitative research; 2) qualitative data are collected in the form of words or pictures rather than the numbers; 3) qualitative researchers are concerned with process as well as product;4) qualitative researchers tend to analyze their data inductively;5) how people make sense out of their lives is a major concern to qualitative researchers.
      Meanwhile, this study was designed as a case study. Case study is expected to capture the complexity of a single case and the methodology can be developed in particular field. Case study is not only applied in social sciences such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, and economics, but also in practice-oriented fields such as environmental studies, social work, education, and business studies (Johanson, 2003,p. 2).

In this case, Gerring (2004, p. 1) states that a case study is “an empirical inquiry that investigates a contemporary phenomenon and context are not evident, and in which multiple sources of evidence are used”. In addition, the study itself focused on a single phenomenon which was one of the characteristics of a case study. The phenomenon that the writer investigated in this study was analyzng the technique used by students in translating newspaper. Means of collecting the data, the writer did not need the formula to calculate the data.
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