Qualitative approaches are now growing its popularity among

novice researchers. Thus, they need to be well-informed step by

step in conducting the qualitative studies. Particularly, this book will

benefit students who keen to focus on finding solution on the language

related issues and concerns.

A number of features are provided for novice scholars and

researchers in order to be able to select the appropriate design for their

study. The first feature is detail characteristic information on each type

of the research approach. Each approach is elaborated in detail manner

so that readers will possess comprehensible input of what and when

a particular approach will be appropriately selected and employed.

The detail characteristics of each approach in qualitative have been

discussed in many research methodology books published earlier.

However, this book can be used as the supplementary resources for

those who specifically focus on the qualitative approach when they

are dealing for the first time and more specifically for the language

research and its related issues.

The second feature is the example of each approach. Since qualitative

approaches have a lot of similarities, the researchers are supposed to

have careful thought when selecting a particular approach. This can be

very difficult for novice researchers. Therefore, in order to guide them

selecting the most appropriate approach for their study, the examples

of the previous research using similar approach are provided. The

examples of the previous research on each particular approach are

carefully chosen so that it possibly relates and represents Indonesiancontexts. Another distinguished feature of this book is supplied the information on several common fallacies that scholars or novice researcher usually argue about the qualitative approach. For example, many novice researchers in Indonesian context still believe that in qualitative approach, they are not supposed to use numerical data. That might not be true. The discussion on some fallacies like the above-mentioned example hopefully can guide them to have no more doubts of employing qualitative approach.