CHAPTER 2

RESEARCH METHOD

This chapter presents the research method used in this study. It covers
research design, subject of the study, sources of data, research instrument, data
collection, and data analysis.

2.1 Research Design

This study deals with the adjective clause errors analysis in students’ essay
writing. The research design is descriptive analytical research. Descriptive
analysis is a method in which the researcher collects the data needed, and
then analyze the data. After the data are gotten by counting the total of each
error classification to know the highest frequency of the student’s error, data
is interpreted with descriptive analysis.

In this case, the procedures of error analysis is chosen based in Ellis

(1994), which is collecting all of the data at the same time, then analyzing
them by identifying the errors, describing the errors based on the
classification, explaining the errors, and the last is evaluating which means
correcting the errors. Based on the background on the first chapter, then the
error classification used in this research are on Dullay’s Surface Strategy
Taxonomy: omission, addition, misinformation and misordering.

2.2 Setting and Subjects of the study

The study will be conducted in English Department of State University of

Malang. The subjects of the study are the third semester students of English
Department of State University of Malang academic year 2017/2018. The
researcher choose 30 students from one offering.

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2.3 Sources of Data

The data sources of this study are obtained from the essays written by 30
students of English Language Teaching Program of State University of
Malang. The essays varied in length and quality.

2.4 Research Instruments

As mentioned in the source of data, the study utilized an instrument to

collect and analyzed the data.

2.5 Data Collection

The data for the study will be collected from students’ essay writing task.
First, the researcher gather the students who will be the subject for the
research. Second, the writer ask the students’ to collect their essay writing.
After collecting the data, the researcher analyze the students’ essay based on
Surface Strategy Taxonomy by Dulay et all to find the most common errors in
using adjective clause. The last, after got the result the data is interpreted.

2.6 Data Analysis

The data are analyzed in three steps: identifying the errors, classifying the
errors, and tabulating the errors. The researcher then describe the findings and
reported them descriptively. The researcher read all written essay made by the
students thoroughly. Then the researcher classify the errors into some
categories using the research instrument as a guidance