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Descriptive Qualitative Essay

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This study employed a descriptive qualitative study. According to Burns and Grove (2003:201), descriptive qualitative study “is designed to provide a picture of a situation as it naturally happens”. Again, a descriptive qualitative study focuses on collecting, organizing and summarizing information on the problem under investigation (Hamied & Maliek, 2014).
Furthermore, this study was theoretically qualitative because it was relevant to some characteristics: first, main focus of this study is on describing what happened, what the situation or event is like and how the things are related to each other (Hamied & Malik, 2014). Second, the data collection in this study was directed toward discovering the teaching process. According to Sandelowski …show more content…

The teacher of English in the school has better experiences in teaching English at junior high school. She has been teaching for 15 years at junior high level. She was a teacher trainer in MGMP. Moreover, she was chosen as model teacher in the implementation of new programs such as lesson study and scientific approach. This school was chosen as the site of the study for four reasons. First, the school is a favorite junior high school in Bangka Tengah due to the school’s achievement both academic and non-academic. Second, the teaching and learning facilities are better than other junior high school. This school is supported by a number of teaching facilities such as projectors and speakers in each classroom. Third, this school is using 2013 curriculum due to the district government policy to implement 2013 curriculum independently.

3.3 Data Instruments
In this study, various data instruments were used to gain the information related to the research questions. They are documents analysis (on lesson plans), observations, and interviews. Further, this section concerned the kinds of instruments used to collect the data, the functions of each data, and the source of instruments.

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