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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter is set to discuss the methodology of this study. The explanation of the methodology used consists of the research method, research participants,
research instrument, data gathering technique, data analysis technique and research procedures.
A. Research Method
This study captured how the exemplary English teachers implemented Curriculum 2013. As regards the implementation from the teachers, the researcher
chose to use conduct qualitative research. The study gained the varied implementation, especially the mechanisms of each exemplary English teacher
through this kind of qualitative research. According to Fraenkl and Wallen 2009, “qualitative researchers, ... assume that the world is made up of multiple realities,
socially constructed by different individual views of the same situation ” p.15.
This study conducted the interviews as the instruments of gaining the data from teachers in order to obtain the varied implementation from the participants
who had implemented the Curriculum 2013. This was in line with Fraenkl, Wallen and Hyun 2015 who stated that
”the purpose of interviewing people is to find out what is on their minds
–what they think or how they feel about something” p. 449.
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B. Research Participants
The participants were the exemplary English teachers in Yogyakarta. The teachers were also coming from different schools. They would be the
representatives of the other exemplary English teachers in Yogyakarta and the research would not be a bias. For choosing the participants, the researcher used
the selected participants. It was used because they were the respondents who could
contribute to the researcher’s understanding of the study Merriam, 2009, p. 105.
The number of the participants involved in this study were two participants. Even though the participants were two exemplary English teachers,
they were included as the representative. In accordance with Merriam 2009, the interview research’s crucial factor was the potential of each person to contribute
to the development of insight and understanding of the phenomenon p. 105.
C. Research Instrument
Since it was qualitative research, the researcher also designed the interviews as the instruments. This statement was in accordance with Fraenkl,
Wallen and Hyun 2015 who pointed out that “in their researchers search for
understanding, qualitative researchers do not usually attempt to reduce their data to numerical symbols, but rather seek to portray what they have observed and
recorded in all of its richness ” p. 28.
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