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F. Research Procedures
There were eight steps in conducting this classroom action research. The steps were asking for the school’s consent, conducting the preliminary
observation, finding the problem, planning, implementing an action and observing, testing, collecting the data, and reflecting. The brief discussion of each
step would be described in the following sections.
1. Asking for the School’s Consent
The researcher asked the permission from the school’s side to conduct the
research. The researcher explained to the headmaster of SMP N 3 Klaten about the background of the research, purpose, and reason why the researcher wanted to
conduct this research in SMP N 3 Klaten.
2. Conducting the Preliminary
After asking the permission, the researcher did the preliminary study to know how VIIIB class situation generally, including the teacher
’s performance in delivering the materials, and students
’ participation in the learning process. In preliminary study, the researcher had to identify the problems which occurred in
the learning process.
3. Finding the Problem
When the problems occurred in the learning process, the researcher discussed the major problem with the teacher. Then, the researcher tried to
identify the cause of raising the problem and found an appropriate strategy to solve the problem. In this study, the researcher chose the flash cards as a teaching
media which became the strategy to solve the problem. This strategy must be
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explained carefully because it would be applied as a solution to solve the lack of students’ ability in filling the past forms of irregular verbs in the blanks in a
recount text.
4. Planning
After analyzing the possible cause faced by the students, the researcher chose the flash cards to solve the problem. Flash cards were used to teach the past
forms of irregular verbs. After the lesson plan was made, the researcher should act out the lesson plan which was arranged in the learning process. The researcher
also conducted two cycles to know the improvement of the students’ irregular
verb mastery . To know the students’ response toward the activity in the teaching
and learning process, the field notes was used to record not only what was seen and heard but also reflections on what had occurred in the teaching and learning
process. Besides, the researcher also used the test score and interview results to make a reflection.
5. Implementing an Action and Observing
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