Research Method RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

3. Procedures

Referring to the goal of this research which is to describe and interpret English teachers’ lived experience in developing an Android-based English language learning application in order to assign meaning from it, this research was conducted based on a procedure. The research procedure consisted of some steps as illustrated in Figure 3.3. Figure 3.1. Research Procedures The first five steps were the steps in gathering the texts. The first step was conducting an initial interview. The initial interview was conducted to build good rapport with the participants as well as to obtain participants’ personal information. The second step was making questions guideline to reveal the meaning of the phenomenon. The next step was conducting in-depth interviews. The interviews, then, was transcribed in order to convert the audio taped data into texts. The next two steps were the procedure to analyze the texts. The fifth step was coding the transcripts. As mentioned by Creswell 2012: 243, the coding was done to narrow the texts into a few themes by selecting specific texts to use to generate the themes. The next step was generating themes. The themes were used to analyze the phenomenon under investigation. The next four steps were describing the texts, interpreting the texts, doing member checking, and writing the final version. In describing the texts, I wrote the description of the participants’ lived experience consisting of the description of both pre-figured and emerging meaning. I wrote the description of the lived experience based on the five fields of lived experience elaborated previously. The ninth step was writing the interpretation of the participants’ lived experience. In making the interpretation, I referred back to the participants’ texts and connected with the theories and my own perspective. Both the description and interpretation were presented in Chapter V. The tenth step, doing member checking, I asked the participants to check the transcriptions as well as the description and interpretation of the lived experience to validate the findings. The last step was writing the final version based on the feedback given by the participants. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI