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2. Field Notes

Field notes are the written account of what the writer sees, hears, experiences, and thinks in the course of collecting and reflecting on the data in qualitative study Bodgan and Blinker, 1982: 74. In this study, field note was used for writing everything that happened in the classroom during the observation. It contained the teacher’s talk, attitude, movement, and also the classroom conditions including the students’ activity. The teachers’ word, attitude, and movement gave influences for students’ learning process. Field notes were used in every meeting during the observation.

3. Interview

This study applied two types of questions in interview, namely structured or closed form and unstructured or open form of questions. Open interview provides the interviewee with broad freedom of expression and elaboration and often resemble informal talks. In closed interview, there are specific core questions determine in advance from which the interviewer branches off to explore in-depth information, probing according to the way interview proceeds, and allowing elaboration, within limits Seliger Shohamy, 1989:167. The interviews were conducted informally to the English teacher in “Speak First”. The writer interviewed a pre-school English teacher by using Bahasa Indonesia , so that the teacher would simply catch the point of the questions. The information was an important consideration in evaluating and revising this study. The problems questioned in the interview were the methods used in teaching vocabulary, the teaching media had been applied to the students, PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 40 the difficulties found in students during learning vocabulary, how many words which had to be learnt by students, and the time to conduct a vocabulary test.

D. Data Gathering Techniques