Research Participants Research Setting

The methodology of this research used one of the observation scheme for the objective and the quantitative data, video-tape recording of interactions for qualitative data. The audio-tape recording of the interview with the classroom teacher and the school principal. The list of interview questions are based on the observation result that have already done by the researcher. The researcher also arranged the questions based on Hartanto 2010 and Wan 2015. Their study concerned about teacher’s perception toward teacher talk in foreign language classroom.

3.4. Data Sources

The data in this research were taken from the video-recording result of the real interaction, between the teacher and st udents’ interaction during class. It was transcribed into transcriptions. The concern of this study was to discover the pattern of classroom interaction and how did interaction happen.

3.4.1 Research Participants

The participant was a 25 old female kindergarten school teacher whose pseudo name in this study was Mrs. Nina. She is from non-English education department background. She graduated from Islamic University in sociology major. She has experienced in teaching English at the kindergarten school over five years. The researcher chose her as teacher participant because of her willingness to be observed as well as interviewed. Furthermore, the school principal recommended Mrs. Nina to be observed for collecting data proses. To validate and confirm the narrative data from the class observation, the researcher had done the interview with the teacher to get cross check the result and identify un-observable utterance. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI In addition, the school principal was also involved as the participant of this research. She was the founder of Ananda Mentari Kindergarten School Yogyakarta. She had really good understanding of teaching young learner in foreign language. She also found the valuable concept of school which take care, loved and educated children when their mothers were going to work. She graduated from psychology major and had a lot of experiences in teaching young learner, before she established the school. She was very fluent in speaking English. Finally, she was really generous and open-minded person.

3.4.2 Research Setting

This study was conducted in Ananda Mentari Kindergarten School Jogjakarta. This is one of the private Playgroup and Kindergarten school located at Jln. Anggajaya I285 Condongcatur, Jogjakarta. Ananda Mentari has a unique program that offers a mix of regular full day for children age 12 months to 6 years old. The study was started in the second semester of 20152016 academic year. It was done in January-March 2016. This school consisted of ‘grade’ Baby class, Toddler class, Nursery class, Kindergarten one and Kindergarten two. In this study, the researcher concerned in Kindergarten two, there were 12 students in class and there were two teachers to handle the class. The duration for the class started from 8 am -11.30 am. In this school, English was used as classroom language in daily teaching learning process. There were three reasons for the researcher to conduct this research in this school. The first one was because this school is located near from where researcher lives. The second reason was in term of language that the school used in their PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI teaching learning is 100 English. Third reason was based on the first pre- observation that have done in 15 th November 2015, the researcher found that the students were actively speaking in English in order to have some discussion both with teacher and their friend. Furthermore, Miss Pipin one of lecture in English Studies Program Sanata Dharma University suggested the researcher to conduct this research there. The researcher had no problems when conducted this study in this school. Hopefully, the research result contributed to the development of English teaching and learning quality to this school in the future. Particularly, in term of young learner classroom interaction in foreign language. Finally, the research setting could be considered as having credible data, provided an effective interaction and an easy access for collecting data.

3.5. Research Instruments