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G. Research Procedure
As what has been stated initially in the previous chapter, this research made use of basic interpretative approach as the method of the research. In
general, this method of research are divided into three main steps, they are data gathering process, data analysis process and data presenting process. Furthermore,
each of those steps is subdivided into some more specific items. The research procedure, which is the steps of conducting the research, is presented as follows.
1. Research Information and Data Gathering
a. Identifying Research Problems
The research problems were developed upon some factors, namely the writer’s passion on English teaching, the writer’s observation on how English
teaching in some schools, the writer’s observation on why students like or dislike English lesson in their schools and the writer’s limited knowledge about how
English teaching should be conducted in order to make it acceptable and enjoyable for students. One more factor, it is external factor, is the order of
writer’s leader to study and then apply an appropriate English course for the service of the schools run by the writer’s Order.
b. Asking for Research Permission from the Foundation
The research permission was easily obtained since the school was run by the foundation under the Order of Friars Minor, where the writer belongs to. Thus
the writer was given wide access to some sources beneficial for the research.
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Finding for Information and Knowledge The information and knowledge were obtained by library study and also
internet browsing. Some books which the writer could not find in the university’s
library were downloaded from the internet in full version forms. The discussion the writer made with some people with the same concern were also important in
giving wider perspective on the topic under discussion. d.
Conducting Interview The
interviews were conducted in a day in one of the foundation office’s rooms. There were eight interviewees, six were the course participants and two
were the English course tutors. The interviews were recorded with a fine tool so that it gave clear records to be then transcribed.
2. Research Data Analyzing
a. Listening
The recorded interviews were analyzed. The analysis was started by listening process. The listening process was meant to get the general idea that the
interviewees uttered during the interview session. b.
Transcribing The writer did not do verbatim transcribing process due to the main goal
of the interview was to get the general picture of the interviewees’ idea about the course. The transcribing process was done by typing the general idea of the
interviews straightly on the computer. The target language of the interviews was following the languages which were used during the interviews, in which three
interviews used English and five used Bahasa Indonesia.
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Transcription Reading The following phase of transcribing process was transcription reading. The
main purpose of this process was to get the big picture of the research data, namely the course participants’ experience, including their motivation,
expectation, difficulties and inputs. It also was directed to understanding the course tutors’ view about the course they conducted.
d. Coding
Coding means the process of fracturing the gained data in order to make it simpler to be categorized later on. Including to this process was to simplify the
written text by erasing meaningless data unrelated to the topic of the research. e.
Memoing The main purpose of memoing is not to let go even single contextual
information. This information may be beneficial for the research. f.
Categorizing Categorizing process is meant to group the data based on similar
information they have. In some extent, categorizing process means contextualization the research data to the research problems. In this research, the
categorizing process was done by put the research data into table so that the data would be clearly analyzed based on the contextual information they had in
accordance with the research problems.
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Connecting Connecting the categorized data to the research problem is the further
process of data analysis. The data were connected to the research problem so that the data would provide answers to the problem that the research raised.
3. Research Data Presenting
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