Focus Group Interview Theoretical Description

27 is the soul of teacher. It means, as teachers, it is important to improve the service quality. The service quality includes the four competencies of teacher: pedagogy, personality, professional, and social. Becoming a professional teachers is not merely only because succeeding the measurement stuff but also the self- understanding toward teacher profession and the soft skill to encounter the difficulties. In the last part, the researcher employs some theories related to “self”. This theory brings up the intrinsic encouragement such as self-concept James, 1910; Lecky, 1945, self-esteem Cast Burke, 2002; Gecas Schwalbe, 1983; Tafarodi Swann, 2001, self-efficacy Bandura, 1989, self-motivation Cast Burke, 2002; Stipek, 1988, and self-awareness Pyszczynski Greenberg, 1987. These “self” concepts influence the forming of teacher professional identity. What comes from the inside matters a lot to the decision making. The theory of teacher professional identity, professional teacher, and “self” will be used to answer the research question. The researcher will bracket the theory into some indicators. The indicators formed are to analyze the data. Therefore, based on the theories proposed in this research, the researcher argues that in forming teacher professional identity, it is needed to comprise the indicators of the theories. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 28

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This chapter describes the methodology of the research employed to answer the research questions. This chapter consists of five parts, namely research method, research setting, research participants, instruments and data gathering technique, and data analysis technique.

A. Research Method

In conducting this research, the researcher implemented qualitative approach. According to Fraenkel and Wallen 2009 qualitative research is “investigation of the quality of relationship, activities, situations, or materials” p. 435. It is said as investigation because the nature of qualitative research is to understand a holistic picture in order to get depth understanding rather than a numeric analysis of data Ary, Jacobs, Sorensen, Razavieh, 2010. The researcher as qualitative researcher is interested “in understanding how people interpret their experiences, how they construct their worlds, and what meaning they attribute to their experiences” Merriam, 2009, p. 5. Hence, the researcher employed qualitative research to interpret the student ’s phenomena of teacher professional identity formation during the process of becoming. This research is to uncover the meaning of phenomenon investigated from students ’ viewpoint to achieve an understanding Merriam, 2009. Thus, the