Conduct Behaviour Learning Behaviour

19 Afterwards, the inquiry results from both questionnaire and interview as well as these recorded and classified classroom behaviours are used to assess each research participant’s intrinsic motivation and learning styles. As what is stated in previous paragraphs, this course requires the learners not only to comprehend new knowledge, to apply the knowledge meaningfully, and to analyse the information into its smaller parts but also to synthesize the information to generate a general conclusion that can be inferred from each learner’s personal viewpoint. The researcher tries not only to discover how intrinsic motivation and learning styles sustain each research participant’s classroom performance but also tries to find out how each learner deals with the emerging difficulties due to the existing individual characteristics. As a result, the research investigates the research participants’ individual characteristics namely intrinsic motivation and learning styles as well as the way how each learner overcomes the encountered difficulties during performing the assigned classroom tasks. 20

CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

The third chapter exposes the applied methodology and elaborates procedural steps that are utilized during the research. It entails seven sections namely research method, research participants, research setting, research instruments, data gathering technique, data analysis technique, and research procedure.

A. Research Method

The research is descriptive survey and, therefore, it is naturalistic to the extent that the research takes place in a real world setting and the researcher does not attempt to manipulate the subject of interest. Patton 2002: 39 asserted, “the investigated phenomenon unfolds naturally in that it has no predetermined course established by and for the researcher as it would occur in laboratory or other controlled settings.” The researcher naturally gathered data from the selected participants over a period of time in particular settings and afterwards analyzes data from all members of the same research participants. Then, the researcher compares the research participants to one another to determine whether there is a pattern of change or stability in the data Cates, 1985: 96. Furthermore, it was also non-manipulative, non-controlling, and open to whatever emerged since there were lack of predetermined constraints of findings.