Journal Review: Comparison of 2 Journals

Greeting, fellas.

Today in a series of journal review I'd like to write something a bit different from my previous posts. Today's topic will be revolved around 2 journal in similar subject and comparison between them in term of method used. The first journal is The Interference of Mother Tongue/Native Language in One’s English Language Speech Production (Suliman A. 2014) and the second journal is Impact of Mother Tongue on Learning English Language on Secondary School Level Students (2017). As the names imply, both journal use a similar topic, which is the existence of mother language while learning another language, specifically English.

Methodology

While both journals elaborate similar topic, it is obvious that the authors of both journal use different method in their observation. The first journal for instance, use a qualitative method to determine the result of the observation, whereas the second journal use quantitative method, specifically Chi-Square to gather the data.

Furthermore, the first journal used an interview to gather the information needed  from sample subject, and the author used some kind of personal approach with the sample, the method used is similar to a conversation rather than a question and answer session. On the other hand, the second journal differentiate the sample based on several aspect, such as marks of English, and then write it down in a metric and Chi-Square, followed by an analysis, thus the result is gathered.

It should be noted that, even though both authors used similar topic for their journal, the number of sample used is different, hence the method and approach used is different as the current method that both authors use is better than the latter and vice versa.