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interview, in the second interview the writer would interview the same research participants. There were five 5 participants from Microteaching class.
D. Data Gathering Technique
The data would be gathered using questionnaires and interviews. The questionnaire would be distributed two times. The first questionnaire will be
distributed before the students joining Teaching Practice Program. The writer would distribute the first questionnaire during the campus hour. The second
questionnaire would be distributed after the research participants joining Teaching Practice Program.
In distributing the questionnaires, the writer came directly to the participant one by one and waited for them to fill the questionnaires. The writer did that in
order to make sure all of the questionnaire would be back to the writer. Beside verbal gratitude, the writer would give them a token of appreciation which means
to show gratitude to the research participants for their willingness to answer the questionnaires.
The second instrument was interview. Similar with the first instrument, interview would be conducted two times as well. The first interview would be
conducted before the research participants enrolled in the Teaching Practice Program, and the second interview would be conducted after the research
participants have completed Teaching Practice Program. The interview was conducted together with the questionnaire distributions.
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In doing the interview, the writer selected break time when the research participants already finished their Microteaching class. The interviewees answered
the questions asked by the writer, and the writer records all the answers. If it was necessary, the writer would ask follow-up questions to obtain clarification and
details. After the questionnaires were administered and the interviews were
conducted, the next step was to compile all the data that had been collected. The purpose of compiling the data was to put it into a form that would later be useful
for storing, accessing, sorting and analyzing it Brown, 2000. The answers written in the questionnaires can be considered as written record. The answer in
the interview was recorded. The writer would transcribe them into written form and compile the notes, so that it could be accessed easily.
E. Data Analysis Technique
