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motivational aspect. Hence, the students are encouraged to improve their language abilities and experiment with various public speaking techniques without fears of
making mistakes. Then, the lecturers need to explain it to the students that those errors should be reduced gradually as they learn from their mistakes.
During the process of giving feedback, the lecturers are likely to experience both encouraging and discouraging moments. Both of them help the lecturers to
improve themselves personally and professionally. They will learn how to deal with
students’ learning problems, students’ different levels of understanding and other difficult circumstances.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter focuses on the methodology which was employed in the research to answer the research questions stated in the first chapter. This chapter
consists of six major sections. They are research method, research setting, research participants, instruments and data gathering technique, data analysis
technique and research procedure. Each section is elaborated and presented as follows.
A. Research Method
Not many phenomena in human lives can be measured in quantities. In this study about the essence of Public Speaking feedback for the lecturers, the writer
used qualitative research. Qualitative research covers all the data that cannot be expressed in numbers. Therefore, the answers for the research questions are in the
form of words Tesch, 1990. Instead of the calculation of numbers, the result of the qualitative research is the description of what really happened in some
people’s lives. Qualitative research aims at the findings of the phenomena in a natural settings that result
in new understanding of human’s world Sherman and Webb, 1988. Neuman 2006 proposes that qualitative research is a precise,
adequate, and meaningful research, because the researchers obtain the ideas from the participants of the study and process them to suit the context of a natural
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This study aimed to acknowledge the lecturers’ belief about giving feedback in public speaking based on their experience. In order to get a deeper
understanding of those beliefs and experiences which cannot be measured quantitatively, the qualitative method was used. The qualitative research enabled
the researcher to dig deeper into the participants’ fundamental beliefs and distinctive experiences that were related to the study. Thus, the result of the
research that answered to the research problem would really mirror the contextual situation.
There are many types of qualitative research, such as action research, case study, ethnography, and phenomenology. Which type is used in a research
depends on the area or topic of the study. This study discussed the lecturers’
beliefs of feedback in Public Speaking. Since the study included their perspectives, preferences and experiences in giving feedback in public speaking,
the phenomenological research was selected. The phenomenological research focuses on the individual and the essence of subjective experience. It does not
study the impact of a program implemented in a certain situation, the culture of a circumstance or the interaction between people in a society. Instead,
phenomenology would emphasize what the experience of being someone in a particular situation is like. Tesch, 1990; Manen, 1990 It also aims to gain deeper
understanding about how a person perceives the experience shehe has had and maintain to provide the
“comprehensive description” of it Moustakas, 1994. In his book, Manen 1990 suggests
that “phenomenological research is the study of lived experience.” He also describes lived experience as the essence of
