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CHAPTER IV DESCRIPTIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS
This chapter presents the discovery of the empirical truth, both the process and the results. It discusses how data were thoroughly collected, coded, reduced,
presented and analyzed. This part is divided into two sections namely: the description of the participants’ lived experience, and its interpretation of the
participants’ lived experience.
A. Description of the Participants’ Lived Experiences
In this study, there were three participants being interviewed; Dewi, Evi, and Ata. They were pseudonyms. They were ELS students, batch of 2015 coming
from three different majors or streams, namely, linguistics, literature, and education.
The texts were thoroughly collected from the interviews which were divided into two parts: initial interview and in-depth interview. While the initial interview
was more flexible in terms of the development of discussed topics, structured interviews tended to be focused on the topic. In other words, the initial interview
was conducted more freely by keeping the discussion on track and creating a comfortable atmosphere so the participants could talk freely; structured interviews
were composed and derived from research construct.
1. Dewi’s Story
Dewi, pseudonym, was currently one of the students in The Graduate Program in English Language Studies Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta. She
was in her third semester of becoming the student in the graduate program and her
55 interest is in Education. She was born in Bangka Belitung. Her formal education
was also in Bangka. She moved to Yogyakarta right after she finished her education in senior high school. When she moved to Yogyakarta, she chose to continue or to
pursue her higher educational degree in the undergraduate program of English Language Education Study Program ELESP in Sanata Dharma University. She
mentioned the main reason why she chose to study in the ELESP Sanata Dharma University was because she believed that the ELESP is the best study program
compared to another ELESP from another university. Besides, entering the ELESP was also her passion. She further emphasized that she was not interested in neither
the linguistics stream nor the literature stream. Regarding her experience in doing projects, during the interview, she
mentioned that she had ever done quite a lot of projects when she became the undergraduate students. One of the projects she mentioned was the Service Program
Design SPD project done when she was in the last semester of becoming the undergraduate student. She mentioned that in the SPD project, she and her friends
had to create an English course program for specific purpose for the Mechanical students of Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta. She further mentioned that she
and her friends had to make the philosophy of the course, the name of the course, and the proposal of the program.
Additionally, she told me that during the English course program, she also found some difficulties or conflicts with her friends. One of the conflicts was how
to understand one’s argument. However, at that time, she could maintain her emotional feeling by acting as neutral as possible so that there would be no further
conflicts in her group. Not only finding out the difficulties or conflicts, but she also
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