Research Method RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

32 motivation to join English Education in one of universities in Kupang. She studied in the same university as P1 and P2. However, she was younger than them. After graduating from university, she registered herself to join SM-3T Program. By joining the SM-3T Program, it shows that P3 is really determine to be a teacher. She admits that she loves teaching. She enjoyed to be a devoted teacher in Kalimantan and to learn more about teaching in ELESP USD.

D. Instruments and Data Gathering Technique

The researcher employed an interview guideline as an instrument. In order to gather the data for answering the research question, the researcher made use of interview guideline since the interview was conducted. Interview was chosen as the type of qualitative data that the researcher used in gathering the data. “A qualitative interview occurs when researcher ask one or more participants general, open- ended questions and record their answer” Creswell, 2012, p. 207. In this research, the researcher conducted focus group interviews. This technique is open- ended information which means that the researcher gathers through interaction with participants. The researcher asked open-ended questions during the interview so that the participants could answer or give their open-ended response in their own words. Kind of interviews conducted by the researcher were focus group discussion. Before conducting the focus group interviews, the researcher constructed interview guidelines. The researcher used highlighted topics list as a guide of the focus group interview see Figure 4.1. The topics obtained was based PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 33 on the components and indicators in Table 3.2. Therefore, the interview guidelines helped the researcher to guide the participants to the topic. The interviews were using Indonesian since it is the participants’ mother tongue. The purpose was to avoid misunderstanding between the researcher and the participants during the interview and to get better understanding. After obtaining the data, the researcher transcribed the interview records. The transcription of the interviews then was validated by member checking.

E. Data Analysis Technique

In order to analyze the data, the researcher elaborated some analysis techniques which were adapted from Ary et al. 2010 and Creswell 2012: familiarizing and organizing, coding and reducing, thematizing, and interpreting and representing.