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and its application as well as the strategies used by the teacher to anticipate the gaps. This is in line with the characteristics of qualitative study focusing on
process and product Frankel, et.al., 2012; Hancock, 1998. Secondly, the results from the study were elaborated in words and it
matches qualitative design in its nature as it concerns words than numbers in its description Berg, 2007; Stake, 2010; Miles and Huberman, 1990; Liamputtong,
2009; Connole, et.al. 1990; Frankel, et.al., 2012; Hancock, 1998. Secondly, this study did not attempt to make generalizations of the focus under investigation and
this is also similar to the feature of qualitative study highlighting that it learns on particulars and the interpretation resulted is in need of contextualization Connole,
et al, 1990; Travers, 2001. Finally, the results of the study were highly depended on the interpretation of the researcher that tended to be subjective and therefore it
matches qualitative study characteristics. In line with it, the study employed a case study as the method. This was
used because the present study was focused on a single entity, low-scale case, yet, provided a deep analysis on the topic under investigation and all of these
characteristics embrace the features of a case-study method as mentioned by Hancock 2002, Holliday 2005: p. 17, McMillan and Schumacher 2011: p.
415, and Johnson 1995: p.75. See also Creswell 1998: p. 56, 2012 p. 22, Yin, 2011: p. 17, Cohen, et.al. 2007:p.173, Connole, 1990, Liamputtong, 2009: p.
190, Merriam, 1988: p.16, and Emilia, 2000.
3.4 Research Setting and Participant
This study took place in the Japanese department in one public university in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. This was chosen because of three reasons. First,
the participant involved in the study is coming from non English department and has been teaching in the Japanese department for 8 years and therefore she
preferred to study the topic under investigation in her room. This gave her comfort and familiarity to the situations, hoping that by having this situation,
unnatural behavior of the student could be avoided.
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Second, by having a place that is comfortable with the participant, an easy access could be gained so that the feasibility of the study could also be attained.
Finally, it was expected that the participant gained more understanding on the topic if she learnt in the place she felt comfortable with.
Further, the participant involved in the study was a female Japanese language lecturer who has been teaching in a public university in Bandung, West
Java, Indonesia for 8 years. The participant is 35 years old, is a Moslem, and is originally from the Sundanese ethnic group Indonesia. She speaks Sundanese
language as her mother tongue, Indonesian as her second language and Japanese and English as her foreign languages. The participant has an excellent academic
achievement and was granted a scholarship to Japan for her master study and is now granted a scholarship by Japan government for doctorate degree in the first
rank of the 50 applicants in the world applied to the same university in Japan. She also received several awards relevant with her academic achievement such as
the first rank in the speech contest. Furthermore, the nature of participant involvement in the study was
voluntary based. It gives advantages for researcher in terms of costs and accessibility Elder, 2009. However, it also provides disadvantages in terms of
representativeness and generalization Elder, 2009. Nevertheless, the disadvantages given were not the issues in the study as the nature of the study was
qualitative and did not pursue for generalization.
3.5 Data Collection
