9 research participants’ perspective transformations after joining the program.
Therefore, the research question is more specific as: 1.
To what extent did the involvement of five ELESP students in Pengajaran Code
as tutors lead to some perspective transformations?
C. Problem Limitation
The study investigates some perspective transformations among research participants after joining Pengajaran Code as tutors. The research participants
were five ELESP students namely D, Th, Ta, F and E. They joined the program as tutors since November 2013 until November 2014. In order to investigate each
research participant’s perspective transformations deeply, the researcher limits the study only on the perspective transformations among these five ELESP students
upon joining Pengajaran Code as tutors.
D. Research Objectives
The research question is “to what extent the involvement of five ELESP students in Pengajaran Code as tutors leading to some perspective
transformations”. Therefore, the objective of the study is to find out what kind of perspective transformations, which are undergone by these five ELESP students
upon joining Pengajaran Code as tutors. The researcher also seeks out some explanations from each research participant on how they underwent these
perspective transformations.
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E. Research Benefits
This study is expected to contribute some benefits to the educational development with regard to English language teaching. There are some significant
results when doing this study, because the study seeks to investigate perspective transformations of these five ELESP students upon joining Pengajaran Code as
tutors.
1. ELESP
This study will remind and give the recommendation to the ELESP that a tutoring volunteer program can develop students’ characters in terms of their
competence, conscience
and compassion
through some
perspective transformations in viewing and teaching their students to be better. The ELESP
itself also trains its students to be such teachers. Moreover, the ELESP does not have such program yet. Thus, it is a good recommendation program for the
ELESP.
2. ELESP Students
This study will remind ELESP students to be competent, compassionate and conscientious English teachers because the study program, the ELESP, trains
them to be such teachers. This study will also invite the ELESP students to join a volunteer tutoring program, since it improves their competence, compassion and
conscience as English teachers. Another benefit, the study also gives additional information to the five research participants to reflect their perspective
transformations after joining the program as tutors. They can compare the
11 perspective transformations of other research participants to learn new
perspectives which are not achieved.
3. Future Researchers
The researcher hopes that this study can inspire other researchers to investigate some influences and perspective transformations when an ELESP
student joins a volunteer tutoring program as a tutor. Hence, such program can be a great concern to the educational development. Another benefit, this study will
help other researchers to gain additional information about the example of perspective transformations among ELESP students who joined a volunteer
tutoring program as tutors. This area of the research will be great research since it touches humanity in the educational field.
F. Definition of Terms
There are four terms which was presented in this section in order to avoid misunderstanding. They are Pengajaran Code, phenomenological study,
transformative learning, and perspective transformations. The explanation of these terms are as follows:
1. Pengajaran Code
Pengajaran Code is a volunteer tutoring program which is aimed to educate marginalized children in Jogoyudan, Yogyakarta. This program is called
as Pengajaran Code, because the program was held in the bank of Code River in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It had been started since 2012 which firstly was founded
by BEM-FKIP and UKM PM collaborating with Yayasan Paku Bangsa. Yayasan
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is an organization which cares abou t people’s life in the bank of
rivers in Yogyakarta. The organization is chaired by Mr. Wignya. Children who joined this program were in pre-school, elementary school
and junior high school ages. Most of them were from low social-economic status in which their parent could not facilitate them in learning. In this program there
were some subjects taught, one of them was English. Some ELESP students, who became tutors in the program, were in charge of teaching English. However
sometimes they also taught other subjects such mathematics, Indonesian, religion and so forth. Five research participants of this study were a tutor in the program.
They joined the program from November 2013 until November 2014. The program was held every Sunday until Friday at 04.00 pm until 05.30 pm. Most of
the tutors were Sanata Dharma University students, but they were from different study programs.
2. Phenomenological Study
A phenomenological study is a study to seek out one’s meaningful
experiences. Christensen, Johnson and Truner 2010 explain that the primary objective of a phenomenological study is to explicate the meaning, structure, and
essence of the lived experiences of a person, or a group people around a specific phenomenon.
Another phenomenological
researcher explains
that a
phenomenological researcher focuses on the wholeness of experiences and search for essence of the experiences Moustakas, 1994. Therefore, such study focuses
on the research participants’ experiences only, without any intention to generalize
the results to the others.
