The study processed the participants by using deep interviews. Focus group interviews were undertaken for the
simple reason that they would fulfill the study’s goal of understanding more about the participants’ viewpoints
(Chung & Huang, 2009). The interviews were conducted through a series of semi-structured questions and
answers. During the interview process, some impromptu questions were improvised because of the conversations,
and more comprehensive information was acquired on the topic (Pan, 2003). In order to justify the proposed
research, the interview questions were designed and outlined on the basis of reviewed literatures, and categorized
into four themes: failures that they had experienced, extrinsic motivation, intrinsic motivation and learned
helplessness. All of these questions were organized in accordance with interview protocol. For the teachers, the
questions were changed to inquire about typical behaviors of learned helplessness students in class. Throughout
the interviewing process, the conversations were recorded in wmv files for future reference and analysis. Each
group’s set of questions was similar in meaning, but the wording or discussion was modified according to the
actual on site interactions. Even though modern technology was used in this research project, key words and
sentences were mar