using their mother tongue language in order to let them express their real feelings. As a result, the participants could easily and freely express their feelings. During
the FGD, the researcher recorded all the conversation. Also, the researcher wrote down the main points from each participant in the FGD.
D. INSTRUMENTS AND DATA GATHERING TECHNIQUE
The researcher used three data gathering techniques with two kinds of research instruments in this research. The first data gathering was observation.
The observation was done to observe all activities happened in General Listening class IB batch 2015 of the EEC. In order to record all the data during observation,
the researcher prepared one research instrument to be used. The researcher made an observation sheet in a form of tables which consisted of four parts: class
activity, reflection, question, and comment. Class activity is the column to write down all the activities happened in the classroom. This column was filled by some
series of activities in the classroom from the beginning until the end. Then, the next column is reflection. This column was the research
er’s interpretation about this class. The researcher was trying to make meaning in this class, so the
researcher interpreted what happened in the classroom in this column. The next one is question. Question column was a column which provided for the researcher
if the researcher had questions to the lecturer related to the activities in the classroom. The last is comment. The previous column was the question from the
researcher to the lecturer. Then, in this column, the lecturer would answer the researcher questions from the previous column.
Table 3.1. Observation Sheet
No Class Activity
Notes Related
Questions Comments
1 2
…
The second data gathering used by the researcher was an FGD. The researcher had an FGD together with the lecturer and the students to discuss their
feelings about the class. The research instruments were a voice recorder and a note. The researcher paid attention to the discussion. Then, the researcher wrote
down all important information. To make the information more accurate, the researcher recorded all the conversation during the discussion and later the
researcher would review the records to complete the information from the note. The FGD was led by the lecturer, not the researcher. According to
Millward 1995, the moderator must be someone who is familiar to the participants, so the participants can trust and give commitment to the moderator.
Therefore, the researcher decided to ask the lecturer becoming the moderator of the FGD so the participants could express their opinion freely.
The third data gathering used by the researcher was interview. The interview was done with Mr. X as the lecturer to confirm the data gathered by the
researcher. In this data gathering, the researcher only used a note as the research instrument.
