Journal Review (2) : Research Method

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The researcher used the descriptive qualitative method in this research. Descriptive research describes and interprets events, condition, or situation, of the present. On the other hand, qualitative research is a research method based on post-positivism and naturalist paradigm (Joko Nurkamto, 2004: 3).
According to Lofland and Lofland (1984) in Moleong (2006: 157), sources of data in qualitative research are words and actions, the additional data can be documents or other sources. The event in this research was in the form of teaching and learning activities of English in the classroom. The
informants were the English teacher and the second grade of the senior high school students of SLBB YRTRW Surakarta that consisted of 4 students. The documents were the only one English textbook material entitled as “English for Students with Special Need“, syllabus, lesson plans, and students’
questionnaire result. Triangulation has been applied as the trustworthiness to check the validity of the
data. According to Moleong (2006: 330), triangulation technique is the technique to check the data by using something beyond the data. In this research, the researcher chose and took the data sources of triangulation from the teacher, students of the second grade of the senior high school class of SLBB
YRTRW Surakarta, and the researcher himself as an independent observer. Triangulation of the method was also performed by crosschecking the data collected through interview with those
obtained through observation and document analyses. The data in this research were analyzed by using interactive model of data analysis that includes collecting the data, reducing the data, presenting the data and drawing conclusion (Sutopo, 2002: 95). The first step was collecting the data from interview, questionnaire, observations, and document analyses. The second step was reducing the data in which by selecting, focusing, and simplifying the data. The third step was presenting the data by arranging those data in the form of description in order to come to the final step which was drawing.


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