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CHAPTER III
RESEARCH METHOD
A. Research Design This study used descriptive qualitative research. According to Bogdan and Taylor cited by Lexy J. Moloeng, Qualitative method is “a research procedure that obtains descriptive data in written or spoken form from the people and their behavior which is being observed.” 33 According to them, this approach is purposed to seek the understanding of a phenomenon or other certain problem by focusing on the total picture rather than breaking it down into variables. The goal is a holistic picture and depth of understanding rather than a numerical data analysis. In addition, the findings for the research problems in this research were gained through a content analysis design. Content analysis is defined as “a research method for the subjective interpretation of the content of text data through the systematic classification process of coding and identifying themes or patterns”.^34 In short, the researcher scrutinized the selected English learning websites through reading, understanding, interpreting, and describing the content to gain the data finding of the research. B. Research Instrument
(^33) Lexy J. Moleong, “ Metodologi Penelitian kualitatif (edisi revisi)” (Bandung : PT Remaja Rosdakarya, 2010), 4. (^34) Yan Zhang and Barbara M. Wildemuth, “Qualitative Analysis of Content”,
Determining instrument depends on the method used in the research. This study used descriptive qualitative research with content analysis. In content analysis, the instrument is basically the researcher himself because to collect the data, get the sources, and analyze the data depends on the researcher. As Lexy stated “the researcher’s role is very important toward the scenario of his qualitative research because the overall sources and data of study indeed depend on him. So, the status of the researcher here is complicated enough. He is the planner, data collector, analyst, data interpreter, and also his research finding reporter.” 35 However, in collecting the data, the researcher needed some other tools/instruments to assist the researcher’s work. Those are mentioned as follows:
- Ginger software. It was used to check the grammar in the language use in the content of websites during the analysis.
- Website Evaluation Criteria. It includes evaluation checklist and description evaluation. It is enclosed in appendix 1.
C. Data Collections and Data Analysis In qualitative research, data analysis technique was directed to answer research question^36. As Creswell, Miles and Huberman stated which is quoted by Professor Denis, “Data analysis is an eclectic process occurs
(^35) Lexy J. Moleong, “ Metodologi Penelitian Kualitatif”........................................ 163,168. (^36) Sugiono, Memahami Penelitian Kualitatif. (Bandung: CV. ALFABETA, 2012), 87
qualitative research. It means that the researcher had been reducing the data before, during, and after collecting the data as well as analyzing the data. Before the data were actually collected, the researcher decided (often without full awareness) which conceptual framework, which cases, which research questions, and which data collection techniques to choose. This definition was called “anticipatory” depicted in the figure. In fact, deciding which English learning websites that had been evaluated occurred in this phase. Firstly, the researcher scrutinized, selected and simplified 100 ESL websites from http://english.gotop100.com to be five of most visited English learning websites (the further reason has been explained in chapter I). The next step, the researcher decided the evaluation criteria of good English learning websites which had been synthesized according to some theories of designing good websites for ESL from journals in internet. The first criteria is from “the system for evaluating ESL Websites” by Jeffrey T. Nelson accessed on http://.itp.innoved.org; the second is from eMINTS National Center in ”Evaluating and Using Internet Resources” accessed on www.emints.org; and the third criteria is from The Internet TESL Journal “Guidelines for Designing a Good Web Site for ESL Students” by Charles Kelly on http://iteslj.org/. Some criteria of good English learning websites from those theories have equal functions but have different criteria. Thus, the researcher had synthesized and determined some criteria that have
different purposes in order that the evaluation criteria are more complete. Then, the researcher used the syntesis result to evaluate selected English learning websites. It can be seen in appendix 1. After that, the process of evaluating websites also occurred here. The researcher had read, learned, interpreted and analyzed the content of website one by one in depth in accordance with the evaluation criteria. To do this, the researcher must be on line to internet. Furthermore, the researcher also needed to check the language accuracy used by the author in their websites through “ginger software”.
2. Data display “Looking at displays help us to understand what is happening and to do something-further analysis or caution on that understanding” , this statement is what has been stated by Miles and Huberman (1984) 39. In the qualitative research, the data can be displayed in the form of table, graphic, phi chard, pictogram and other equivalent of them^40. By displaying the data, the researcher was easy to understand and to analyze what was happening with the data presented. And the researcher began to do the next plan of the research based on what the researcher has experienced. After evaluating one by one of the five of most visited English learning websites, the researcher found out the evaluation result from
(^39) Sugiono , Memahami Penelitian Kualitatif. (Bandung: CV. ALFABETA, 2012), 95 (^40) Sugiono, Memahami Penelitian Kualitatif. (Bandung: CV. ALFABETA, 2012), 95
the data and also make a final conclusion of the data that had been analyzed, interpreted, and identified in the preceding process. Finally, the result of data reduction, data display, and also the result of triangulation process were elaborated in the form of words, phrases, and sentences through a descriptive qualitative. The qualitative descriptive method will be used to present analysis along with citations of the original sources and a part of analysis interpretation.
