the challanges that Saudi females students face
in developing their speaking skills while
studying abroad (in Ireland)
the study aims to explore the challenges that
female Saudi students in Ireland face when
developing their English speaking skills. The
research is guided by two sub-questions in the
process of the investigation. This includes:
1- What challenges do female Saudi students
perceive they face in developing the speaking
skill?
2- What strategies do they suggest to overcome
the identified barriers?
My order is to analyse the given data by using
the thematic analysis, and to write the result
and the discussion chapters, I want the result
chapter to be around 2500 words, the discussion
chapter can be around 3500 words.
I translated and transcribed the interviews and
I did the analysis as following( the following
was copied from the data analysis in the
methodology chapter)
Since the focus in this research is in the
context of exploring the challenges participants
encounter in their attempt to improve their
speaking skills, the thematic analysis method
was used to analyze the data obtained in the
course of the study. As suggested by Braun and
Clarke (2006), there are practical phases
followed in applying thematic analysis. This
includes:
• Familiarisation with the collected data.
• Generating the initial codes.
• Uniting codes into themes (to search for
themes).
• Reviewing the themes.
• Defining and naming the themes.
• Producing the report.
Following the process of thematic analysis, once
the data was collected, I read the transcripts
several times for purposes of familiarisation.
Concentrating on the data allows the researcher
to notice and identify patterns that stand out
within it. This process is called coding and
serves in identifying notable patterns for
further investigation. While reading the data
over and over again, it was analyzed manually
and inductively by using a highlighter pen,
writing notes, memos, and analytical comments on
the margins of the pages. For efficient
analysis, the researcher started to answer the
research question by reducing the data by
dividing it into categories. In other words,
initial codes were identified as the data were
hand-coded and labelled into categories:
participants’ speaking skill difficulties in a
??study abroad’ context, the strategies they
recommend and use to overcome those
difficulties, their thoughts and experiences
about studying in Ireland and their experiences
in communicating with people in the hosting
community. Though there are several computer
programs for analysing qualitative data, the
decision was made to use code-based manual
analysis using Microsoft Word in order to work
on the data extensively which would build an
intuitive sense to its patterns and features. In
addition, such programs require the capability
and the knowledge to use and run of which cannot
be achieved by the researcher within the limited
frame time of the study.
The code, in this context, implies a system of
symbols such as letters and or short words used
to represent and label a theme (Savin-Baden &
Major, 2014, p.422). As stated, the purpose of
coding is to search for themes in the data.
Thus, while generating the initial codes within
the data, several themes are noticed. Themes are
the uniting or unifying ideas within the data
which can be considered as the fundamental phase
in the process of the data analysis (Savin-Baden
& Major, 2014). Meanwhile, several candidate
themes and sub-themes appeared with which each
is a combination of several codes, were defined
and listed in different paper sheets for further
interpretation. There were few codes that were
not fit under any theme; hence they were grouped
together under a theme named miscellaneous
(Braun & Clarke, 2006). Then, the researcher
reviewed the themes several times in order to
investigate them and to find if the themes fit
well with the codes and whether the themes
represent the data accurately. I needed to
reorganize the themes with the given codes and
go back to the data to check once again if they
can be contributed to the data. I kept a list of
the codes and the analytical comments so that I
can keep track of them and their meanings. The
solidified themes which can be contributed to
the data and the research question were
carefully reorganized, explained and named with
concise and clear names that convey the meaning
and the story of the themes. The final step was
to compile the entire report supported by well-
chosen extracts from the collected data.
I found that many themes can be noticed in the
data, such as the cultural identity and the
social networks and engagement(Saudi opposite
gender and other opposite gender),considering
the fact that in Saudi Arabia the gender
segregation is the social norm of life that can
be seen everywhere, in schools, hospitals and
universities..ect.
you may found another themes but in general I
was not happy with my analysis and I don’t even
know how to present it , and in which form it
should be presented since this is my first time
of doing a research, so I would like to ask you
to analyse the 6 interviews and to write the
result and the discussion chapters, and to
include your process of analysing it in appendix
or something for me to go back to it later.
Since I did the translation, you may found some
grammatical errors in the interview, I am not
asking you to correct them but when you extract
from the interviews to support the data in the
discussion, I hope from you to correct the
extracted quotes.
I did the literature review with you previously
and I will upload it along with the interviews
and the methodology chapter for you. Finally, I
would like to keep in contact with the writer,
to see the results before going to the
discussion chapter to provide you with my
feedbacks. and about the references, I only
choose 30 because I have to choose a certain
numbers, but you may take the numbers that it
takes for theses tow chapters to be done.
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