Research Setting RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
40 The researcher conducted the interviews with some lecturers in Sanata
Dharma University who were considered as carrying out high-frequency self- fulfilling prophecy in the classroom. The questions were related to the importance
of using self-fulfilling prophecy to im prove the students’ performance based on
lecturers’ perception. Further, the questions also related to what extent do the perceptions influence the way lecturers teach. The purposes of this research were
to know the lecturers’ perception on the implementation of self-fulfilling
prophecy. Moreover, based on the perception itself, it can be found that the implementation of self-
fulfilling prophecy is useful to encourage students’ confidence. The researcher used guidelines of questions in order to allow the
researcher to modify, delete, or add interview questions during the interview. The guidelines of the questions can be seen in the Appendix B.
The interviews were recorded by using one hand phone with the common recording phone. To avoid some problems that might come up with the device, the
researcher was not only use one device to record the interview. The interview was also recorded by using an audacity program f
rom the researcher’s laptop. Ary et al., 2002 state
“the most efficient way to collect arranged interview data is to use a tape recorder. This way is much less distracting than taking notes and it also
provides a verbatim record of the responses” p. 434. Therefore, the researcher did not take note during the interview. The interview used both English and
Bahasa Indonesia based on the interview situation. The use of code-switching is to make both the researcher and the participants have a deeper conversation.
41 However, in presenting the data, the researcher translated the Bahasa Indonesia
version of the interview into English.