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Working alongside with Conversation analysis, the research selects interview as the second method to generate the data. This paper, for that selection, deals with the second key research instruments, interview. Specifically, it explains and proposes a plan for carrying out interview for the research. The section starts with discussing the advantages of interview instrument. What follows after is a brief overview and discussion around the issue of critical dimension of interview. This review helps to provide guidelines for the deployment of interview in this research. After that, the procedure of doing interview is introduced with regard to creating interview guide, question design and the proposed segments of …show more content…
These are very insightful issues that have raised awareness for the consideration of carrying out qualitative interview for my research. The idea of missing critical dimension in qualitative interview is rooted from the standpoint of conceptualising interview as ‘active’ event with a constant meaning-making venture. This is to stress that the focus of any interview should not only be put on the interviewee per se. As a co-constructed setting, the identity, value and perception of both interviewer and interviewee interplay in the context and shape the interview. In addition to that, the interactional context, in which the interview occurs, is also often neglected. By interactional context, it includes the missing information on the participant’s selection categories, such as their position and relationship with the interviewer (Magnusson and Marecek, 2015c). Moreover, interactional context also covers the awareness of the researcher on the nature of qualitative interview with its own generic expectation. In other words, no matter how much the researcher wants to obtain information and understanding about the participants’ context, they need to be aware that the interview is an interactional and independent event on its own. As a whole, an interview is constructed and developed out of each turn the interviewer and interviewee utter. Therefore as a researcher, if I am too much into getting the information out of my participants, there is a risk for being doing the ‘what’ than the ‘how’. Put it differently, I am focusing primarily on “mining” the interviewee (Mann, 2010:06) and forgetting the importance of how to obtain information on the level of each turn and the process of doing an interview. This opens up a wider range of other
Working alongside with Conversation analysis, the research selects interview as the second method to generate the data. This paper, for that selection, deals with the second key research instruments, interview. Specifically, it explains and proposes a plan for carrying out interview for the research. The section starts with discussing the advantages of interview instrument. What follows after is a brief overview and discussion around the issue of critical dimension of interview. This review helps to provide guidelines for the deployment of interview in this research. After that, the procedure of doing interview is introduced with regard to creating interview guide, question design and the proposed segments of …show more content…
These are very insightful issues that have raised awareness for the consideration of carrying out qualitative interview for my research. The idea of missing critical dimension in qualitative interview is rooted from the standpoint of conceptualising interview as ‘active’ event with a constant meaning-making venture. This is to stress that the focus of any interview should not only be put on the interviewee per se. As a co-constructed setting, the identity, value and perception of both interviewer and interviewee interplay in the context and shape the interview. In addition to that, the interactional context, in which the interview occurs, is also often neglected. By interactional context, it includes the missing information on the participant’s selection categories, such as their position and relationship with the interviewer (Magnusson and Marecek, 2015c). Moreover, interactional context also covers the awareness of the researcher on the nature of qualitative interview with its own generic expectation. In other words, no matter how much the researcher wants to obtain information and understanding about the participants’ context, they need to be aware that the interview is an interactional and independent event on its own. As a whole, an interview is constructed and developed out of each turn the interviewer and interviewee utter. Therefore as a researcher, if I am too much into getting the information out of my participants, there is a risk for being doing the ‘what’ than the ‘how’. Put it differently, I am focusing primarily on “mining” the interviewee (Mann, 2010:06) and forgetting the importance of how to obtain information on the level of each turn and the process of doing an interview. This opens up a wider range of other