Qualitative Research Assessment

3.3. Research Instrument

The research instrument is an important part of the research method to be used to obtain the representative data. In this case, the researcher uses human as the research instrument. It is me as a researcher to be the instrument of this research. The status of the researcher in qualitative research is very complex. He at once as a planner, data collector, analyzer, data interpreter, and reporter of the research results after the research is completed (Moleong, 2008:168). In this study, the researcher plans what would the researcher do with the data, founding the data that related to the scope and limitation, analyzing data based on the theory of pragmatics in language teaching, and reported the results of the analysis.

Questionnaire for the students

The questionnaire will be applied to students to achieve the information about their response to their teachers’ teaching strategies in integrating pragmatic competence in teaching English. The questionnaire will consist of five questions. Two questions will be displayed to represent the three questions, such as I like the strategy used by the teacher, I feel that teacher involve the pragmatic aspect of the learning process, etc.

3.4.6. Interview with the students

Interview with the students will be conducted to collect information about students’ response to the teachers’ strategies. The aim of conducting the interview is to gain deeper information from the questionnaire result. This information is considered as important data because the data can show the extent of teachers’ strategies in comprehending the student’s pragmatic competence. Moreover, it leads to an investigation to students’ response to the teachers’ strategies. The interview guide consists of five questions.

3.5. Data Analysis

Data analysis is a systematic process of searching and arranging interview transcripts, field note, and other materials that researchers accumulate to increase their own understanding of them and to enable them to present what researchers have to be discovered to other (Bodgan & Biklen, 1999:

This step is the continued step of the data collection. Since the instruments of this study are tests, observations, questionnaires, and interviews, thus all of the data are not in the form of text. It could be audiovisual data. So, the researcher has to transcript the audiovisual data into a written form. Another important this is describing the situation, which is recorded in the video about the teachers’ strategy in integrating of Pragmatic competence in teaching English for Indonesian EFL students. The process of organizing and preparing data for analysis as