27 year 20102011 who were doing their teaching practices. The reason to choose the
participants was that they were representative of senior students, who had learned English grammar for such a long time and at that time they were being prepared to
teach. All those students were the participants for the content or document analysis, but only five of them were the respondents for the survey. The
respondents for the survey were chosen based on the number and the variety of the verb phrase errors that they made. Those respondents were the ones who
produced the errors the most often and variably.
D. Instruments and Data Gathering Technique
The data were gathered from the participants’ speech. The speech was in a test, which was in the form of a teaching practice. In the test, they had to teach
their classmates and to focus on the language skill which was assigned to each one of them. The whole teaching and learning process was recorded so that the record
would be useful for them for self-improvement. In the research, the researcher employed some instruments to gain the data
she needed, namely:
1. Human Instrument
The researcher was of great significance in this research. According to Merriam 2009, the researcher is the primary instrument for data collection and
analysis p. 15. Ary, Jacobs, and Sorensen 2010 elaborate that only a human instrument is capable of being flexible enough to capture the complexity of human
experiences and of adapting as well as responding to human situations p. 424. In
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interviewing and a document analysis.
2. Documents
Since one of the methods of this research was document analysis, documents were also of great importance. As stated before, the researcher used
the student records as her data. The data were used to answer the first and second research questions.
3. Interview Guide
The researcher conducted some interviews with five selected participants to help find the answer to the second and last research questions formulated in
Chapter I, using the interview guide she had prepared. Morgan states that an interview is a purposeful conversation, usually between two people but sometimes
involving more, directed by one to obtain information from the other as cited by Bogdan Biklen, 2003, p. 95. The researcher employed the interviews in
conjunction with the document analysis. She carried out semi-structured interviews. In this kind of interview the area of interest is chosen and questions
are formulated but the interviewer may modify the format or questions during the interview process Ary et al., 2010, p. 438.
To answer the first and the second research questions, the data were gathered through watching the DVDs containing the research participants’ speech
in their teaching simulations and subsequently collecting the utterances which contained the target errors. She played the DVDs for many times until she could
describe as many utterances as she could collect. In addition, as the researcher
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carrying out a content analysis alone. She needed the participants’ opinions about the causes of their errors. Therefore, to answer the second research question, the
researcher also collected the data by recording the interviews with some of the participants with the highest number of and the most various errors. Those
respondents was picked based on the researcher’s assumption that the students who produced the errors the most frequently and variably would give more
explanation about the causes of the errors and the suggestions for coping with verb phrase error production.
E. Data Analysis Technique
