code switching data. This step was also aimed to make the research easier to be analyzed.
2. In-depth interview.
Kahn and Cannel 1957 as quoted by Marshall and Rossman 2006, p.101 described interviewing as “a conversation with a purpose.” Consequently,
in order to obtain the data the researcher had to design and to structure a set of questions that will be questioned. In addition, in-depth interviewing also required
good interpretative skills from the researcher in order to analyze the data. By conducting in-depth interviewing, the researcher should not give any intervention
to the partipants’ perspectives on the phenomenon of interest.
D. Data Gathering Technique
There were two methods to acquire the competent research. Merriam 2002, p. 13 offered observation and in-depth interviewing as procedures to
convey qualitative research study, and those methods were related each other. Therefore, the researcher engaged those two major methods to obtain qualified
data within the research. The first was the observation method. It was required in order to obtain
data from the source. In this method, the researcher designed the observation form as a medium to comprehend the data taken from Facebook users’ pages. Then the
researcher examined thoroughly all of the Facebook pages of researcher’s primary friends, particularly those who were not students of English Education Study
Program or English Letters Study Program of any university. The phrases and sentences made by targeted users were the main matter of the researcher’s interest.
The exploration of the required data was not only in the status update form, but also within the comment feature, wall, and note feature. Noted that many
Facebook users were using some abbreviated words to shorten the sentences without reducing the meaning of the sentences they made. The subsequent step
was to list all the data to the observation form so that the data gathered were easy to be analyzed and comprehended. In addition, the collection of the required data
was started from November 27
th
, 2009 up to December 7
th
, 2009 which resulted with 185 required data.
The second method was conducting some in-depth interview to twenty 20 Facebook users target. The selection of the participants was conducted
randomly. The age of participants was in the range of 15 up to 62 years old came from various social backgrounds. The interviews were conducted from January
20
th
, 2010 up to February 12nd, 2010 with the core question was about their motives of employing code switching in their phrases or sentences they made.
Merriam 2002, p. 13 stated that indices of questions were needed to be guidance within the interviews. The results of in-depth interviewing were recorded in a
recorder. It assisted the researcher to reveal the participants’ reasons of using code switching in their phrases and sentences.
E. Data Analysis Technique
