Conducting the Interviews Research Procedures

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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

This chapter discusses the results of the research and provides the findings. The findings were about the experiences in the Internship Program Course which influenced ELESP pre-service teachers ’ motivation of Sanata Dharma University to be English teachers. The data of this research was based on the interviews with five ELESP students of Sanata Dharma University of batch 2011 who had attended the Internship Program Course in the seventh and the eight semesters. In this chapter, the researcher answered the two research problems; 1 what were the experiences in the Internship Program Course which influenced ELESP pre- service teachers motivation to be English teacher? and 2 how did the experiences in the Internship Program Course give impact to the pre-service teachers to be English teachers?

A. Research Results

In this section, the researcher displayed the findings of the research. The findings consist of the researcher’s perception on the Internship Program Course, the research participants’ short description, and the Internship Program Course experiences which were faced by each participant. 31

1. The Researcher’s Perception on Internship Program Course

Based o n the researcher’s experience during attending the Internship Program Course, this course has an important role to train the ELESP pre-service teachers’ teaching skills. In general, the Internship Program Course is similar to job training in which the pre-service teachers will be at a school in a certain period of time to develop and train to be English teachers. During the process of the Internship Program Course, they are no longer university students, but they are the pre-service teachers who have an obligation to teach. During the Internship Program Course, the pre-service teachers will be accompanied by a teacher advisor who gives the guidance and the feedbacks to them. Therefore, in the implementation, the pre-service teachers will get assistances and tasks from the teacher advisor. Furthermore, the researcher had a perception that the experiences in the Internship Program Course impacted in altering the researcher’s motivation to be an English teacher. It was based on researcher’s reflection that the experience which was gained during the Internship Program Course affected the motivation, the perspective and alters the researcher’s behavior. Through this course, the researcher had the opportunity to apply the knowledge of the teaching methods which were gained in the college and explored it. However, based on the informal discussion and conversation with the researcher ’s colleagues, the researcher found that some of the pre-service teachers thought that Internship Program Course was only as a compulsory course that should be taken without searching for the meaning and the purpose of this course.