questionnaire, especially related to the students’ perceptions, students’ interest, and the possible contributions of Play Performance course. In addition, the
interview questions could be seen on the appendices.
3.4 Data Gathering Technique
To investigate the ELESP students’ perceptions on Play Performance course and the possible contributions of Play Performance course for the ELESP
students as the English teacher candidates and answer the research problems, the research employs questionnaire and interview as the research instruments.
Moreover, the researcher also provides some questions related to the problems. The researcher conducts the questionnaire towards 40 ELESP students and
interview towards 3 ELESP students. After distributing and gathering the questionnire, the researcher conducts the interviews.
The main purpose of the interview is to complete unclear data gained from the questionnaire. The researcher chooses 3 of 40 ELESP students answering the
questionnaire randomly. Then, the interviews are conducted in certain places such as coffee shop or cafe creating a relax and comfortable situation for both
the interviewer and interviewee. The questions discussed above would be added unintentionally according to the situation and each student is interviewed by the
researcher once or twice.
3.5 Data Analysis Technique
The data gained from the questionnaire would be formed in the narrative description and displayed in the form of table and chart. In addition, the data
gained from the interviews and questionnaire would be integrated and formed in
the narrative description. The questionnaire was used to answer the research problems, which are the ELESP students’ perceptions on Play Performance course
and the possible contributions of Play Performance course for the ELESP students as the English teacher candidates. In addition, the interviews were used to
complete unclear data or information gained from the distributed questionnaire. To answer the problems, the researcher distributed questionnaires to 40
ELESP students. There were four degrees of response to the statement on the questionnaire: 1 was for strongly disagree SD, 2 was for disagree D, 3 was for
agree A, and 4 was for strongly agree SA. After classifying the answers based on the degree of answers, the researcher counted the percentage of each answer,
presented it in tables, and wrote the narrative description in order to help the readers understand the findings clearer.
In collecting information from interviews, the researcher used tape recorder. To gain the information, the researcher listened to the recording and
made transcripts of the recording. In addition, the researcher identified and classified the information gained from interview, then showed the result of
interview in a written form as far as it was related to the research problems and considered as significant information supporting this research. The information
related to the research problem was presented in a written form to make the readers easier in noticing the information.
3.6 Research Procedure
