25 Sherman 1930 states that the purpose of
“a qualitative research is not verification of a predetermined idea, but discovery that leads to new insights
” p. 5. Therefore, the researcher in qualitative research depends on natural setting.
In this study, the research used content analysis as the method in interpreting the data. Silverman 1993 says that textual analysis which includes in content
analysis method i s used to understand the participants‟ categories. Therefore, the
use of this method is considered relevant since this study specifically describes learners‟ writing and analysis the learner language.
B. Research Participants
The researcher chose 10 first-semester students of Bahasa Inggris I class B in Theology Faculty of Sanata Dharma University, academic year 20152016,
who took the class with Mr. Markus Budiraharjo as the participants of this research. Since only those ten that have already done writing in four topics
assigned by the lecturer. The rest of the class did not complete the four topics. The four topics are namely:
“Learning Strategy”, “Experience of being Forgiven”, “Homily based on the Bible” and “Reflection on Children Stories”. The
participants did not know that their writings were intended to be analyzed in term of their mastery on English past tense. That was done on purpose as the researcher
wanted to keep the learners produce their writing as what it is. Also this brings them chance to write with their pure understanding of past tense. Then, three out
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26 the discussion part, due to keep the neutrality and to respect these participants,
they are then called as P1, P2, P3, P4, P5, P6, P7, P8, P9, and P10.
C. Research Setting
The research was conducted in Theology Faculty of Sanata Dharma University. It is because the students of Theology Faculty are all Catholic priest
candidates who have accustomed to reflection writing activity. The researcher then believes that the data, which are the writings of the students, are relevant to
the study. Further, the location of the campus where the participants are studying is reachable for the researcher. That was very helpful since the researcher also
needed to meet the students to gather the data. The researcher gathered the writings
which were sent from the lecturer‟s email. The data started to be gathered on September 26
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2015 of which are the writings of first topic “experience of being forgiven”. The writings with the
second topic which is “learning strategies” were received via email on November
4
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2015. After that, on November 13
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2015, the third writings on topic “reflection
on children story” were received. The fourth writings on topic “homily based on the Bible” were received on November 23
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2015.
All data were analyzed during November 2015 until February 2016. The interviews towards three participants were conducted in three different places and
time. The first interview was conducted to P2, on Saturday, 16 April 2016, at 11 a.m. in Realino stage, Kampus I USD Mrican. The second interview was
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