Data Collection The highly-motivated student`s lived experience of communication apprehension and fear of negative evaluation.

49 play outdoors more than indoors. Second, it is suggested to describe the experience from the inside, as it were; almost like a state of mind: the feelings, the mood and the emotions. Third, what should be done is focus on a particular example or incident of the object of experience: describe specific events, an adventure, a happening or a particular experience. Fourth, it is better to try to focus on an example of the experience which stands out for its vividness, or as it was the first time. Fifth, it is important to attend to how the body feels, how things smelled, how they sounded and many others. Sixth, what is not less important is to avoid trying to beautify your account with fancy phrases or flowery terminology. Data were interpreted thematically in hermeneutic phenomenology. Auerbach and Silverstein’s 2003, p. 38 define a theme as a way to categorize a set of data into “an implicit topic that organizes a group of repeating ideas.” Saldana 2009, p. 139 confirmed this understanding as he stated “a theme is a phrase or sentence that identifies what a unit of data is about andor what it mean s.” However, my goal was to uncover these themes as van Manen 1990 proposed by reading the data multiple times in order to come up with interpretive, insightful discoveries. Overall I followed his model to get at the “notions” of the data to make sense o f it and give it shape. My themes emerged as a “form of capturing the phenomenon one tries to understand” van Manen, 1990, p. 87. I used van Manen’s 1990 approach which is called selective reading approach. In the selective reading approach, I listen to or read a text several times and ask what statements or phrases seem particularly essential or revealing about the phenomenon or being described. The completed transcripts as the result 50 of in-depth interviews were read multiple times for the identification of significant sentences. The transcripts were cut out and assigned a sentence or a phrase in order to capture the essence of the thought expressed by the participants. By following this step, themes could be generated. The themes were examined for similarities and links therefore attempts were made to order them into coherent themes. The figure below summarized the data collection and data analysis of my study. Figure 3.1. Data Collection and Data Analysis Constructing questions as in-