the participants in order to check the accuracy and validity. In this study, all the participants were asked to review the transcript and a brief analysis of the
interview to verify the data. In general, the participants were all agree with the content of the transcriptions. They gave comments on the transcriptions such as,
spelling errors and incorrect names of places. Hilss 2012 supports that member checking can be used to verify and clarify the content of the participants
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CHAPTER IV DESCRIPTION AND INTEPRETATION
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 who were being interviewed; Asti, Cahyo, and Jaya. They are pseudonyms. They were ELS students of 2014
coming from different majors, i.e. Linguistics, Literature, and Education. The texts were thoroughly collected from interview which divided into
two parts: initial interview and in-depth interview. While initial interviews were more flexible in terms of the development of discussed topics, structured
interviews tended to be focused on the topic. In other words, initial interviews were 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. Asti’s Story
Asti pseudonym, is a Graduate student of the English Language Studies, Sanata Dharma University. She was born in Semarang, September 14
th,
1989. Her former educational background was in Semarang. She moved to Purwokerto right
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