A Dissertation by GRACE HUI-CHIN LIN Submitted to the Office of ...

Procedures
Data Collection
1) Researchers designed the learning materials of strategy learning, selected
communicative topics, and made DVDs (training material) with Camtasia
and Power Point software to be used in the 10 weeks of training.
2) The university teacher had been trained to use the skills in five
communication strategies. During the training, the notebook, journals,
textbooks, and DVD with the lectures and examples of strategy
application had been used.
3) The university teacher trained his students to use skills in five strategies
for five hours in the first five training weeks. Each week, students learned
one strategy in three meetings of 20 minutes. Students had finished
learning all of the five communication strategies in the first five weeks.
4) At the end of week five, seven students had been asked to do the
face-to-face videotaped interview and talk about their feelings.
5) The member check was conducted for the first time during the second
session of training.
6) The students began reviewing the five learned communication strategies
for another five weeks of training in the second session.
7) At the end of 10 weeks of training, the researcher had interviewed the
seven volunteers again using the same approaches.
8) The collected data from 14 interviews of 90 minutes were transferred onto
DVDs.
9) The 21 hours of data in 14 DVDs were transcribed, coded, and analyzed
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