One of you wants to investigate the effect of pantomime on the accuracy of the students' speaking. It is important to have a theoretical basis before you test whether the theory is true or not. In the above example, you have to find out whether theoretically pantomime can actually improve the accuracy in speaking. Common sense tells us that pantomime, which is a silent theatrical performance, may not directly related to improvement in speaking, especially its accuracy (grammar and pronunciation). It may be better to choose another type of media which is directly related to speaking, such as movies.
Section 1: Introduction
Research questions
The research questions in quantitative studies are usually written in the form of yes-no questions, for example:
- Is there a significant difference in vocabulary size between thrid graders who are taught using songs and those who are not?
- Is there a significant correlation between grammar competence and writing ability?
- Are songs effective media in the teaching of vocabulary to third graders?
- How far can the university students guess the meaning of unknown words?
- How much do the tenth graders use a monolingual dictionary to get the meaning of unknown words?
One of you stated these research questions:
1. Is there a significant difference between X and Y?
2. How effective is X?
They actually ask the same thing. If the answer to the first question is "yes, it means there is a significant difference between the two conditions and the technique/media/material you use in the treatment is effective. But if the answer is "no," it means there is no significant difference between the two conditions and the technique/media/material you use in the treatment is not effective.
Definition of key terms
As the name suggests, you have to define the most important terms related to your study. One of you have this as the title of your proposal: "Teaching Speaking to Tenth Graders through Application in Facebook --Uploading Video Clip." However, in section 1 you only define these terms: recording, uploading, and Facebook. Because you are students of English Department, you should put more emphasis on language learning and the terms you define should be related to language learning, too. Rule of thumb: define the terms you use in the title and research questions.
Section 3: Methodology
Instruments
It is possible to conduct qualitative research for your skripsi and gain in-depth understanding about a phenomenon. The more instruments you use, the better and deeper your understanding about the phenomenon. However, you must ensure that you will be able to manage a huge amount of data and do comprehensive analysis on them. It is good to use five instruments in one qualitative study, but will you be able to analyze a huge pile of documents, field notes and interview transcripts? If you are able to do so, will you have the time to analyze them all? It's better to take these into consideration before collecting the data.
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