27 sensibilities of the describer. The researcher seeks to describe an experience or
selected event in what they will describe, and in the process of featuring certain aspects of it, begin to transform that experience or event.
It is obvious from the statement that phenomena is central to qualitative research, in which the scientific approach and method are conducted to prove the
preliminary assumptions towards the phenomena. In order to make the assumptions and interpretation becomes reliable and scientifically approved,
qualitative researchers need to refer to prior works and theories. One of the benefits of conducting a qualitative research, according to Yin 2009, is that it
gives to the researchers a more comprehensive understanding toward complex social phenomena without tendency of impoverish the rich information or data
into numbers.
B. Research Participants
This research was conducted by interviewing four Senior High School English teachers who are teaching in different private schools. Currently the
participants were teaching in three different cities. Two of them were teaching in Yogyakarta, while the others were teaching in South Tangerang and North
Jakarta. Meanwhile, the participants were selected purposively. According to
Ary, Jacobs, and Sorensen 2010, in purposive sampling, sample elements judged to be typical, or representative, are chosen from the population. In purposive
28 sampling, the researcher chose the participants based on certain criteria. In this
research, the researcher made three criteria as follows: 1. The participants are Senior High School teachers.
2. The participants are teaching English 3. The participant had implemented or is implementing the Curriculum
2013. In this research, two participants are teaching in Yogyakarta. One of the
teachers is teaching in South Tangerang. Meanwhile, the other one is teaching in North Jakarta. It was expected that the researcher would understand and
comprehend the perception of the Senior High School English teachers from various cities on the implementation of Curriculum 2013 in four different schools.
C. Research Setting
The interview was conducted in February 13
th
, 2015 to July 17
th
, 2015. There are four participants in this research. As stated previously, they are teaching
in four different schools. Although they are from three different cities, the interview was conducted in Jogjakarta. When the researcher wanted to make an
appointment to interview those participants, the researcher texted the participants. After receiving their reply, the researcher went to their house in Jogjakarta, and
conducted the interview there.
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D. Research Bias
On the other hand, the results of this research may have a research bias because the participants came from different cities and schools. These different
backgrounds may influence their opinions about the curriculum implementation. However, Curriculum 2013 was implemented by all of the national schools in all
educational level. As long as the researcher did not generalize the opinions to the curriculum implementation, the researcher could avoid from the bias.
E. Instruments and Data Gathering Technique
