CHAPTER III
RESEARCH METHODS
Methodology is the body
of knowledge that describes and analyzes method, indicating that limitation and
recourses, clarifying their presupposition and consequences, and relating their
potentialities to research advances (Miller, 1970: 65). In order, this chapter
describes; Population and Sample, Data Collecting, and Data Analysis.
3.1.
Population and Sample
1. Population
Population is the great group which represent
generalizing target (Saville,
et al. in Mahsun, 2005:28). Other opinion stated that, population is all
individual to every obtained fact. According to Arikunto, (2006:130) stated
that, population is the overall of research subject. Therefore,
as according to accurate object, hence population in this research is the overall
of the native speaker of local language (Sasak language) of “meriaq-meriku” dialect or overall of
the Sasak community who use the Sasak language (Base Sasak) as first language
(L1) at Kuta, Central Lombok, Pujut central Lombok regency of West Nusa Tenggara
province.
Whereas,
Kuta is a village with population + 4000 people divided into 14 sub
villages (Dusun) in year of 2009, and it is predominated by Sasak community or
Sasaknese whereas, they use Sasak language (base Sasak) as first language
(mother tongue) with “meriaq-meriku” dialect.
2. Sample
Sample is part of area or location settlement which
usage of certain language (Mahsun, 2005:72). Sample is some of member from population as an
object of research (Arikunto, 2006:131).
Hence, we can take several people as informant and one or several region which
used the language as sample (Mahsun, 2005:29).
Overall the data in this research are sources from the
informant which qualified as native speakers’ local language (Sasak language)
of “meriaq-meriku” dialect. Furthermore,
the technique of the researcher in gathering sample is random sampling. Where,
it is the ways in gathering sample by randomize and mixes the subject in the
population so that, all of subject in the population are same and has the same
chance become a sample (Arikunto, 2006:134). Thereby the researcher gives same
right to all subjects within this population to be sample in this research. All
the subject or informant selected and specified with informant criteria in this
research as bellow;
a. Sex ; male or female
b. Physical and mentally Healthy
c. Age 20-65 years
d. Minimum elementary school graduated
e. Owning pride with their language and
their language community
f. Bilingual or multilingual
Because
of in this area there are consist of 14 sub villages (Dusun) with the
population + 4000 peoples in year of 2009, in order to the researcher using
random sampling and taken only 30 informants, as above specification and those
are represented of overall of the Sasak community (native speaker) in this
place.
3.2.
Data Collecting
Data
collecting is a systematic procedure and standard to get the data needed. The
problem of study is always related to data collecting method. There are some
collecting data methods that are used on a research (M. Nazir, 1985:211). The
methods are; interview, documentation, observation, test, questionnaire, and
rating scale (Arikunto, 2002:125-135). In this research, the researcher applies
observation, audio recording and interview.
Observation
method is used to gather data by analyzing the object of study and note down
(note-taking) each detail of procedure that representative to variable which
being discussed (Rianto, 2001:96). In this method the researcher as participant
who observe the informants and participants conversation and sometimes the
researcher took part in the conversation.
The researcher
also has observed the Sasak community who used Sasak language (Base Sasak) with
“meriaq-meriku” dialect by observe
their daily interactions and sometimes took part. In this case the researcher
unites with the participants or become participant within observed their
chatting behavior so that he got the
authentic data appropriate with data needed. According to Sudaryanto (in Anwar
2006:21) the researcher should be native speaker and the good researcher is the
researcher doing the research has good mastery of the language.
In this study, the researcher started his
observation since February 2009 until September 2010, whereas during his
observation the researcher always using note-taking and sometimes audio
recording to in order to he got more valid data as needed.
Interview
is method of data collecting whereas the researcher has contacted or
conversation with speaker as guest speaker or native speaker (Mahsun,
2005:250). The researcher also used questions as
preferred before (see, appendix: 4) to find out information
or data from informants as respondents with the smaller amounts of respondent
(Gunarwan, 2001:45). In this method researcher used note taking to write down
the information from the informants according to the data needed.
The
presence of conversations between researcher and informants means the
interactions between the researcher and informants. By that method the
researcher got the data by using feedback technique and note taking with purposed
to elicit the linguistics data of code switching among the Sasak community at
Kuta, Central Lombok. Hence, the gathered are appropriated with the purposes of
this research.
3.3.
Data Analysis
After
gathered the data, the next step is data analysis. In this step the researcher
used the technique data analysis which Intra lingual and extra lingual match
method because, it appropriated with kinds and purposes of this research.
The data
gathered in this research is analyzed by the descriptive method with qualitative
analysis, with is focus on directing of meaning, description, purification, and
placement the data in each contexts and most used describe in words form than
numeral. Besides that, overall collected possibly become keys of what has been a
research.
By
means of codeswitching research among the Sasak community at Kuta, Central
Lombok, the researcher describe how the native speaker (Sasak community) who
lived in this place are used of codeswitching in their daily life and explain
about; types, and the factors that contributing to the use of it and also why
it is can occur in this place as appropriated with this research target or
purposes.