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C. Research Settings

This research was conducted in the even semester June – July 2015, academic year 2014-2015 and conducted after the participants took the Internship Program Course. The researcher selected the participants purposively. Then the participants were invited to do the interview in Taman Jamur at Sanata Dharma University Yogyakarta. This was meant to find out whether the experiences in the Internship Program Course influenced participants’ motivation.

D. Research Bias

However, this research might have three research biases. First, there were only five participants in this study. Meanwhile, based on the researcher’s observation, there were 160 pre-service teachers in the ELESP of Sanata Dharma University of batch 2011. Second, the participants also did the Internship Program Course in different schools. The variation of schools in doing the Internship Program Course also impacted to the different experiences for each participant. Third, the researcher also joined this research because the researcher was the research instrument. Therefore, it might raise subjectivity because this research conducted human as research instrument. Related to the description of data analysis, the researcher could not generalize the participants’ motivational changing after attending the Internship Program Course. However, the main goal of this research was not to generalize the findings. The goal of this research was to obtain in-depth understanding of a particular phenomenon over investigation. 25

E. Research Instruments and Data Gatherings

According to Ary et al. 2010, p. 424, in qualitative studies, the human investigator is the primary instrument for the gathering and analyzing of data. In order to assist the research instrument, the researcher used human as the main instrument in analyzing the data. The researcher needed an flexible instrument to capture the complexity of the human experience, an instrument capable of adapting and responding to the environment. It was believed that only a human instrument who was capable of this task. In this type, the researcher needed a flexible instrument in order to capture the complexity of the human experience Ary at al., 2010, p. 424. In order to get the data from participants, the researcher used two tools, interview and the Internship Program Course reflections to get the data.

1. Interview

The interview was used to gather the data from people about opinions of something, beliefs, and feelings about situations in their own words. It was used to understand the experiences people have and the meaning they make of them rather than to test hypotheses Ary at al., 2010, p. 438. In conducting the interview, the researcher needed to make a list of the questions which were related to the research needs. Furthermore, in designing the questions, the researcher used supporting theories which were written, theory of motivation and experience in chapter two. The interview was held in semi or partially structured interview. Since in this interview, the researcher might modify the questions during the