developing your research methods

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Meeting 9


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What we are going to do? Review your UTS

Developing your research methods


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Your UTS English language is important for people in advertising industry.

Using English, you can reach / approch global/internationalmarket through advertising. As one of the subjects learnt bystudents of SMK Multimedia school is advertising, thereforeEnglish profeciency becomes important / crucial. However,

students in this type of school still have problems in English. So many things need English in advertising or multimedia.

Therefore, the writer will conduct an experimental research inSMK Multimedia Izzatul Islam Bogor depend on the problem in

vocabulary learning that has found by the writer observation.The students of SMK Multimedia Izzatul Islam still weak invocabulary. It can be seen from many moments when theirteacher asks about any object but they could not answer it andthey became bored.


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English language is important for people in advertising industry.Using English, you can advertize/ promote your productsinternationally. In Indonesia, there is a vocational schoolmajoring in multimedia which concern on the design ofadvertisement. Based on ........... some students in this type ofschool ..............


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People need to communicate each other. In this case, language

is important to be a means of communication. One of the mostwell known / widely used language in the world is English.Therefore, English should be learnt in order to be able tointeract with people around the world. In Indonesia, English isone foreign language learnt by most student.

Wherever they do, by using verbal language, writing or anyother media, the important of language is people need toreceive and give any kind of information. English is the mostsignificant subject that poeple learn in the world presently.

English language becomes the most effective tool tocommunicate and interact among nations. In Indonesia, Englishis considered as the first foreign language because English isintroduced in every level of learners.


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People need to communicate each other. Therefore, they needlanguages as means of communication. English is one of themost widely used language in the world. It is common to seepeople from different countries speak in English to interact.Hence, learning English is important. In Indonesia, English isthe first foreign language studied by most students. Evenstudents in kinder garten start studing English.


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MethodsWhat should be there?

Research design Research sample

The content of the intervention (when you haveexperimental design)

Research instrument Research procedures / Data collection

Data analysis


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Research designWhat do you do in the research?

How are you going to answer your researchquestion(s)?


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Example The study is a pre-test posttest experimental research,

in which an intervention is developed to observe theeffects. The sample was randomly assigned into anexperimental group and a control group.

The study measured student achievement in English

through pretest and posttest.


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Research population and sampleWho is your population / sample?

How are you going to take your sample?

How many sample?


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The content in your interventionWhat do you do during the intervention period and

how?

Do you have any supporting documents during theintervention period?

What roles do you have during the interventionperiod?


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Example

The intervention is aimed at blablaba Teaching materials are developed to facilitate

students learning in blablabla, which areimplemented in 8 meetings (2 meetings / week). One

meeting is about 80 minutes. The following is the schedule for those 8 meetings:

First meeting:

Second meeting:


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Research instrumentWhat instrument do you have?

How do you develop / get the instrument(s)?

Did you do a pilot study for your instrument(s)? Did you analyze the validity and the reliability of your

instrument(s)?


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Example

The instrument in this study is a test of English,

which is used in both pretest and posttest. In the beginning, there were 30 items in the test. Due

to the reliability analysis during the pilot study, only20 items are retained in this study. In the pilot study,

the reliability coefficient () is .65. In this study, these20 item have better reliability coefficient (= .70).

The content validity analysis shows that these 20items represent all the course objectives as stated in

the KTSP of English grade blabla


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Research procedure / Data

collectionWhat steps do you take in doing your research?

Depending on your design

Experimental design: pretest

intervention

posttest


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Example


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Data analysisAfter you collect all of your data, what are going to

do?

Are you going to work with a software (SPSS) ormanually?

What statistical limitation are you going to use?

Significance level = .05


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Example The scores gathered during pretest and posttest in

both control and experimental groups are computedin SPSS program.

Prior to the data analysis, necessary actions to makethe data ready for the analysis are performed. Thoseactions include blablabla. The t-test for the pretestscores of both experimental and control groups reportno difference between the two. Thus, both groups arehomogeneous, which is an important condition in the

experimental research.

In analyzing the data, t-test was used to compare theposttest scores.

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