Ahmed Draia of Adrar Faculty of Art and Languages Department of English Language and Literature

3. Chapter Three: case study of first year student of 
English at the University Adrar 
Introduction 
This chapter describes the research methods that will be included in this study. The third 
chapter is divided into four parts: research design, research participants, equipment, data 
gathering, and data analysis. Adding to that the findings and results of the questionnaire. 
3.1. Research Methodology 
3.1.1. Research setting and participants 
The study will be carried out at Department of English Language at the University of 
Adrar. Thirty students of first year are targeted as participant, the received number is only 

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21.Their age ranges from 18-36 years old, the reason why we chose participants from this 
population is their experience in ONL for the first time in the university as a new technique of 
learning after years of the traditional one in the other stages. 
3.1.2. Research design 
This study uses a quantitative design, which is based on a statistical analysis of 
questionnaire results to compare student‟s motivation of English language learning in online vs. 
in-person in English department, University of Adrar.„„In this design, the researchers do not 
attempt to control or manipulate the variables as in an experiment; instead they relate, using the 
correlation statistic, two or more scores for each individual‟‟(Cresswell, 2008).
3.1.3. Instrument 
Data collection will be done through a questionnaire, which comprises mainly one section 
for measuring student‟s motivation in online vs. in-person learning. It was conducted on Google 
forms i.e. participants will respond online.
3.1.4. Data collection and Analysis 
The data will be gathered during the second semester of the academic year 2020/2021, in 
the first week of May 2021. Online responses for will be organized in a form of chart for 
multiple-choice questions. Whereas other data are used as illustrations in the discussion section.