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could be explained p. 12. However, the interviews and questionnaires were administered in order to find how the exemplary English teachers implemented
Curriculum 2013 and what are the problems faced by the exemplary senior high school English teacher on the implementation of Curriculum 2013.
D. Data Gathering Technique
The study employed semistructured interviews with the two exemplary teachers to maintain the flowing conversations. At first, the researcher designed
the questionnaires as the guideline including what the teachers’ responses on
implementing Curriculum 2013 were and what the difficulties found on implementing Curriculum 2013 were. The questionnaires were consisting of open-
ended questions so that the researcher could gain the data clearly. By using this type of data gathering, the researcher had an opportunity to gain the complete
explanation from the teachers involved in this study. In addition to this type of data gathering, the researcher recorded the data by using a mobile phone. Thus, it
would be easy for the researcher to transcribe the data obtained.
E. Data Analysis Technique
Ary et al. 2002 stated that qualitative data analysis includes organizing and summarizing, interpreting, and reporting. Since the researcher conducted the
interviews, the first step was making the interview transcripts. The interview transcripts later were categorized based on the theories used in the research and
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without adding any additional information to represent some categories of those theories. This was in line with Ary et al. 2002 who stated that without any
additional information, the classification of similar ideas, concepts, activities, themes, setting and so on represents a category p. 466. Afterward, the researcher
summarized the data obtained by relating the categories found in interview transcripts.
Summarizing began with making some statements about relationships and themes in the data Ary et al., 2002. The next step was interpreting. Interpreting,
according to Ary et al. 2002, was an inductive process where the researcher generalized the data based on the connections and common aspects among the
categories and patterns. It was obvious that this step gave the generalizations of interview transcripts
because “…unlike quantitative research, there were no statistical tests of significance
to facilitate interpretation of qualitative data” Ary et al., 2002. Besides, interpreting was a process that proceeded without set rules,
but it was supported by the data Ary et al., 2002. The last step was reporting and hence, the report was presented in a form of a deductive narrative.
F. Research Procedures
This part of research methodology summarizes the steps in conducting the study. The steps involved in the study were:
1. The researcher transcribed the audio data into the written transcripts by
typing the data.
