Nature of Data RESEARCH DESIGN

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b. Participants

The participants of the research were the students of the chosen school. The researcher then indicated three students from different majors to be the participants. All the selected participants were from grade twelve. It was considered because they had learnt English for about 3 years in their vocational school. Their majors were Mining Geology, Computer and Network Engineering, and Gas Manufacture and Petroleum Engineering. The participants could be seen in the table below. Table 3.1. The List of Participants Participants School Major Information 1 male student SMK N 2 Depok Mining Geology A Learning text in English 1 female student SMK N 2 Depok Computer and Network Engineering B Learning text in English 1 female student SMK N 2 Depok Gas Manufacture and Petroleum Engineering B Learning text in English The research focused on the students who learnt English through text-based approach in their learning. The hermeneutics phenomenology method was used to investigate the participants’ lived experience through the mentioned approach. The students’ lived experience was selected because the researcher wanted to get involved with them. The curiosity was amplified on how they could follow the English lesson since it was far from their focus of study, the entrepreneurship-to be students. 42 There were three participants of this research. All of the participants were the students of SMK N 2 Depok Sleman, but they studied in different majors. They were Egi pseudonym from Mining Geology A, Laura pseudonym from Computer and Network Engineering B, and and Angel pseudonym Gas Manufacture and Petroleum Engineering B. They were taught by the same teacher, who was Ms. Yashinta pseudonym.

C. INSTRUMENT

To accomplish the research goals on describing the students’ lived experience of learning text-based approach in English, in-depth interview was used to collect the desired data. Before conducting the in-depth interview, pre-interview was required as the guideline to complete the data needed for in-depth interview. In preparing the pre- interview, several pointers related to the in-depth interview was conveyed. According to Bradley 2002 there were five aspects of lived experience that can be used to examine the participants. Without leaving the consideration of the other aspects, those aspects must be connected and related to each other. The five aspects were understanding, belief, feeling, action, and intention. The table below shows several pointers and sub-pointers that was needed to accomplish in-depth interview. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI