37 Department. The Education Department had a lofty job to teach marginalized
children in the bank of Code River then the program was called as Pengajaran Code
. She finally decided to join the department to teach in the program. It was also the first experience for her. Participant F was unique because formerly she
did not like children and she did not want to be a teacher, even though she is an ELESP student. Besides, she also had an interesting background. She lived in a
settlement in Jakarta, in which the situation was almost like the same as the Code settlement.
e. Research Participant E
Sex : Female
Age : 21 years old
Profession : Student Education : Undergraduate Semester 6
E was the last research participant of the study. She was a sixth semester ELESP student when she was interviewed. She joined Pengajaran Code in the
third and fourth semesters. She joined it from UKM Pengabdian Masyarakat. She taught in the program every Wednesday since November 2013 until November
2014. Teaching in the program was begun when she joined the UKM. From the
UKM , she was introduced to the program. Knowing the program, she wanted to
get new teaching experiences from it since she was still a sophomore at that time. She thought that Pengajaran Code was a good program for freshmen or
sophomores who wanted to help others and get new teaching experiences. She
38 also thought that Pengajaran Code could motivate students to be a excellent
teacher in the future.
C. Research Setting
The research participants were ELESP students of Sanata Dharma University who joined Pengajaran Code as tutors. Therefore the research setting
was in Sanata Dharma University, since the data gatherings were interviews and reflections from the research participants. All of the interviews were conducted in
April 2014. Each of the research participants took approximately 20 until 30 minutes to interview.
D. Instruments and Data Gathering Techniques
The type of this research is a phenomenological study. As being suggested by Simon 2011, “the most common means of data collection in a
phenomenological study is through in depth interviews to gather the participants’ detailed description of their experience, participants’ written or oral self-report, or
even their aesthetic expression e.g. art, narratives, or poetry can also be evaluated”. Therefore, in this study the researcher used two instruments and data
gathering techniques, namely interviews and reflections from the research participants written self-report document analysis.
1. Interviews
Phenomenology tries to understand research participant’s experiences. An interview is one of the most suitable research instruments to know deeper about
