Research Methods Research Participants Research Instruments

CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

This chapter presents the research methodology covering the research method, the research participants, the research instruments, and the data analysis technique.

A. Research Methods

In particular, this research was a document analysis. Ary, Jacobs, and Sorensen 2010: 457 stated that document analysis aimed to identify specified characteristics of written or visual materials. It was used to obtain data which was analyzed. In this research, the researcher used primary sources since the documents were written by participants who had the firsthand experience with the lesson plan development and teaching practice, especially in the learning objective formulation. The documents analyzed were participants’ lesson plans used for their teaching practices in Microteaching class.

B. Research Participants

The participants of this research were 18 students from six Microteaching classes in ELESP of Sanata Dharma University. Three students represented each classes. They were in 20102011 academic year. The students who were joining Microteaching class, which was offered in the sixth semester, were those who had 26 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI fulfilled the prerequisite courses; Instructional Design ID, Approach, Method, and Technique AMT, and Curriculum and Material Development CMD class as the prerequisite courses Panduan Akademik Program Studi PBI, 2007. As they had taken those classes, they were expected to have sufficient knowledge in developing lesson plans for their teaching.

C. Research Instruments

To obtain in-depth analysis and interpretation about this research, the researcher used two types of instruments, namely documents and interviews. Other instruments used were the researcher herself as the investigator and a proofreader. 1. Participants’ lesson plans This research used participants’ lesson plans as the documents which were analyzed. They were taken random, to avoid bias, but purposively, which provided complete data including general purpose Basic Competence, indicators or objectives, material, activities, and assessment. The lesson plans did not need to be transcribed since they were already in written form. They were considered as primary sources as they were written by someone who experienced the phenomena under study directly Ary et al., 2010: 443. The focus was on the learning objective formulation, Basic Competence, activities, materials, and assessments. Any mistake in grammar, spelling, and punctuation of the lesson plans would be disregarded. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 2. Interview Questions Questions were delivered in forms of interviews. Interviews were done after analyzing the documents. Interviews provided in-depth data rather quickly, including participants’ perspectives and clarification of their responses. They were also used to collect data about participants’ opinions, beliefs, and feelings about particular phenomena Ary et al., 2010. These interviews were semi-structured. The questions delivered varied according to what information the interviewer wanted to dig from the participants’ lesson plans. Specifically, these interviews were used to cross check researcher’s understanding about the lesson plans with the participants as the writers 3. Human as Instrument a. The researcher Lincoln and Guba 1985 proposed a concept of human-as-instrument in which qualitative researcher played a unique role to capture the complexity of the human experience as cited in Ary, 2010. The researcher herself obtained data through the documents, then analyzed and interpreted them by the support of the interviews. b. Proofreader To validate researcher’s judgment of the data, a proofreader was used to recheck the raw data of the lesson plans. The researcher pointed an expert in lesson planning. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI

D. Data Gathering Technique