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RUPP rector to conduct a field visit, get approval from the upper secondary school’s director and the agreement from the prospective participants. Firstly, an official letter from RUPP (Appendix C) and detailed information about the study and informed consent form (Appendix D) were sent to the director for obtaining permission of the research conduction and researcher initially discussed with school director and teachers of English to arrange schedule to conduct the research following timeframe (Appendix E). Then, teachers of English were contacted and informed about the reasons and procedures of the study. Once the participants were identified, they must sign informed consent form for their agreement in the research participation, and the researcher made appointments with them for the interview and class observation respectively.

Please describe your data collection procedure from the beginning to the end.

3.5. Data Analysis

Referred to Gay, et al. (2009), data analysis was started from the initialing interaction with participants and pursuing the interaction and analysis throughout the whole study. It was time-consuming to go through a multi-stage process of organizing, categorizing, synthesizing, analyzing and interpreting. Berg (2009) introduced many types of qualitative analyses including discourse analysis, content analysis and others. Of these, content analysis was applied in this study to identify themes and develop categories based a careful coding of data. According to Berg (2009), content analysis was applied to examine and look at the patterns of the language used in the communication exchange. Thus the data collected through individual interview and observation were similarly categorized, encoded and grouped based on similar answers. The researcher listened to the tape recordings and took notes key themes as well as transcribed the interviews. To ensure the accuracy of the data Interview tape recordings was transcribed into Khmer first and translated into English into English language which involves the process of coding and categorizing the data. To avoid misunderstanding of the data, the responses were read carefully at least three times to identify the main themes and concepts and to code them subsequently.

Please tell readers how your analyze your data in detail.

3.6. Ethical Consideration

To ensure that the research findings were not be harmful to the participants and relevant bodies, “do not harm”, the researcher treated carefully about the research ethic by critically writing to inform of the participants the following:

“This research will find the facts of teachers related to teaching professional development and teaching practice as well as their suggestion to improvement. The participants can make decision not to participate in the study at any time without giving a reason. Confidentiality will be maintained during the study and in any report of the study. All participants will be given a code and names will not be retained with the data. Individual participants will not be named or identified in any reports of the study, as only aggregated data will be reported. The storage and disposal of information is controlled by the code of ethic of researcher” (Elligate, 2007, p. 229).

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