Research Method RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

30 This study employed an interview guideline to identify identity transformation among pre-service teachers and the factors which contribute to the transformation after finishing teaching practice program. Furthermore, the researcher employed in-depth and conversational type of the personal interview in which there might arise another questions based on the situation Ary et al., 2010. The researcher asked questions related to the topic as the opportunity arose and then listened carefully and used subject responses to decide the following questions. Spesifically, the researcher divided two catagories of questions, which were to identify identity transformation and factors that contribute to the transformation as described in the Blueprint Interview Questions see Appendix A. Furthermore, the researcher applied this method in order to get richer information about identity transformation. Moreover, interview also allowed the researcher to do immediate follow- up and clarification of participants’ responses in order to clarify the information given by the participants Ary et al., 2010. The data in this research were gathered by conducting interview to the five chosen pre-service teachers from December 2016 until January 2017. The interview was conducted in order to collect the pre- service teachers’ utterances which described their identity transformation. Furthermore, the interview aimed to know the factors which contributed to their identity transformation.

E. Data Analysis Technique

In this study, the researcher employed Creswell’s 2009 qualitative data analysis, which consists of six steps in analyzing the data. They are organizing and 31 preparing the data for analysis, reading all the data, coding, representing the data in qualitative narrations, using the coding to generate categories or theme for the analysis, and interpret the data. Those six steps are discussed in the following parts. First, the researcher organized and prepared the data for analysis by transcribing the data and typing notes from the interviews. Second, the researcher read all the data in order to obtain a general sense of the information and to reflect on the overall meaning. In this step, the writer read all of the transcripts. By reading all of the transcripts, the researcher tried to find the meaning of each utterance that related to this study. Then, the researcher marked the data that supported this study. Third, the writer did detailed analysis by coding the data. The coding involved taking the gathered data, segmenting the sentences, and labeling those categories with a term. Fourth, the researcher employed the coding process to generate categories or themes for the analysis. In this research, the theme refers to the identity transformation namely language expert, language facilitator, and spiritual guide, and the factors that contribute to the transformation. Table 3.2 in the next page shows the data coding for identity transformation in this study.