Methods, Finding, Discusssion, and Conclusion (Types and Functions of Fillers)

METHODS

This chapter presents the methods of gaining and processing the data. It covers Approach of the Study, Data Collection (Subjects, Instrument, Data, Procedures of Collecting Data) and Data Analysis (Identifying the Data, Classifying the Data, Analyzing the Data).

3.1       Approach of the Study

In conducting this research, I used qualitative approaches supported by quantitative data because of two reasons. First, the outcome is the product of the researcher's subjective interpretation of the data. Second, it uses number to help the writer analyzing the data (Drnyei, 2007, pp.37-38).

           

3.2       Data Collection

            This part consists of subjects, instrument, data, and the procedure of how I collected the data. I described briefly the steps of collecting the data.

3.2.1    Subjects

            The subjects of this research were 40 Petra Christian University, the English Department students, consisting of 20 students from the first semester  and 20 students from the seventh semester. These 40 students were considered representative enough to be generalized as the first and the seventh semester students of the English Department. In addition, the number of the respondents for each semester was equal in order to get the valid and consistent data. Those students were chosen as the subjects of this research because they represent well the students with the shorter and the longer studying time in the English Department. The eighth semester students were not chosen as the representative of the students with the longer studying time since at the time of doing this research, some of them had already graduated and some of them rarely came to the college so it brought more difficulties for me to gather them and ask their favors to help me in doing this research. However, the first and the seventh semester students have been the active students so they were easy to be met in the college. Moreover, in conducting this research, the subjects were not differentiated by gender, age, status, or other factors.

3.2.2    Instruments

            The instruments of this research were a role-play and three questions to be discussed by the respondents in pairs. The topic was Petra Square Apartment and its construction work. The followings are the questions.