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CHAPTER IV DATA DESCRIPTION AND INTERPRETATION
This chapter presents the description and interpretation of the texts obtained from the participants. I divided this chapter into two major parts, namely
description and interpretation. In description part, I described the classroom situation during the observation and participants’ life stories in form of narratives.
In interpretation part, I try to inte rpret the meaning of the participants’ anecdotes.
A. Data Description
The first data gathering done in this study was through classroom observation. After making an appointment with the lecturer, I went into the
classroom. In the classroom, the lecturer introduced me to the students. I greeted the students and explained briefly my purpose of staying there. After that, the
class was just going on as usual and I became a silent observer. I started to move around, observe the student’s activities and take notes. In the last minutes before
the class was over, I had a conversation with some students about their activities in the class. Then I thanked them all after finishing the observation.
Just after the class was over, I had a discussion with the lecturer about how the class was going and my research plan. The lecturer helped me to select the
participants by showing the classroom notes he had. I had three criteria of choosing the participants; they are attendance, classroom progress and
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by being diligent in coming to the class at least represents their good will to study. I also chose the students based on the study progress in class. They had finished
with the mid-semester test at that time, so the lecturer could show me the students progress by the middle of the semester. From the students’ progress, it can be seen
that the class had two ranges. They are good with steady progress and sufficient with unsteady progress. I noted d
own four students’ names and their telephone numbers to contact. Before going on with the next step of data gathering, I still
had the last criteria of choosing the participants. It is willingness. I needed the students’ willingness to actively involve in this study so that I could get rich data.
Therefore, I contacted them one by one to ask about their willingness of being my research participants in this study. At last, it came up with only two students who
were willing to be research participants. Fortunately, the two students already represented the two ranges showed in the classroom.
These two students were Dipta and Martha. Dipta represented the range of students with sufficient and unsteady progress. Martha represented the ones with
good and steady progress. By the time this research was conducted, they were enrolling vocabulary class as an elective course in the second semester. However,
the in-depth interviews were conducted after they had finished with the vocabulary course in that semester so that the whole experiences, ideas,
perceptions and beliefs could be gained. Further description about the participant’s profile and their lived experience in vocabulary web-based learning
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