Phenomenological Reduction Phenomenological Steps from Moustakas 1994
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tutors namely D, Th, T, F and E whether they underwent some perspective transformations. The reasons of choosing these 5 research participants were
because they had joined the program as tutors and were as ELESP students, since the study was also aimed at the ELESP. For the instrument and data gathering
techniques, the researcher used semi-structural interviews Ary et al., 2010, so that the researcher were flexible and able to was get in-depth information from
every research participant. After the researcher gathered the data, the researcher processed them. The
researcher used some steps from Moustakas’s analysis data of transcendental phenomenology 1994 namely: 1 Before interviewing and processing the data,
the researcher must be neutral, without any position to avoid the bias epoche 2 through phenomenological study, the researcher described some experiences from
the studied phenomena, 3 the processed data were verbatim transcripts through some certain steps such as including doing bracketing and horizontalizing
phenomenological reduction, and creating the textural and structural description imaginative variation, 4 the researcher then determined the general meaning
representing the whole every research participant’s experiences. The researcher also integrated into the textural and structural descriptions. Validity of the data
was maintained by returning the processed data to each participant. Then the researcher asked the research participants to re-check the data. They might
correct, add and change when the processed data were not in accordance with what they had said in the interview.
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