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3. Collecting and analyzing evidence
4. Reflecting
The researcher conducted this researcher in several cycles. It depended on the students‟ improvement.
In each stage of the cycle, the researcher conducted the activities using the genre based approach. Therefore, in the planning stage, she planned the activities
for building the context, modeling of the text, joint construction of the text. and independent construction of the text. The researcher also conducted those steps in
action, collecting and analyzing the data, and reflection.
B. Theoritical Framework
In EFL classroom, the students learn English through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. All of the skills above are very important for them to master
English as the language to communicate in the global era. Students should have good abilities in writing because in the global era people share and communicate
their ideas through global digital network who depend on the good writing ability. They do not communicate face to face but they communicate by writing.
When the researcher conducted the preliminary study, the students were learning the recount text. They had several problems in writing a recount text.
The results were unsatisfied enough. All of them could not pass the minimum passing grade, 70. Their writing abilities were very poor. They could not make a
recount text in English properly, even make a sentence properly. Then, the researcher conducted interviews, observation, and distributed questionnaires to
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find the root of the problem. After conducting some activities in the preliminary study, the researcher found that the students‟ writing abilities were very poor
because they seldom wrote in English. They also did not know what their mistakes were.
Then, the researcher decided to conduct an action research to overcome the students‟ problem in writing a recount text. The researcher offered the weekly
diary assignment followed by the teacher‟s feedback which worked based on
behaviorism theories. The weekly diary assignment required the students to write their personal experiences in the form of a recount text twice a week. Then, the
researcher would give feedback in the written form and orally in each submission. The repeated reinforcement through the weekly diary made them accustom to
writing in English properly. Then, at the end of the research, the students‟ writing
abilities in writing a recount text improved slightly. The researcher conducted classroom a
ction research based on Riel‟s cction research which consists of planning, action, collecting and analyzing evidence,
and reflection. The researcher would like to see the students‟ improvement
progressively week by week. The most important thing in this research is the students‟ diaries. Therefore, she used this action research which consisted of
collecting and analyzing evidence in the third stage. It helped the researcher to answer the research question. In the teaching activities, the teacher used the genre
based approach which consists of building knowledge, modeling of the text, joint construction of the text, and independent construction of the text.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
In the third chapter, the researcher discusses the methodology of the research. It consists of the research method, the research setting, the research
participants, the instrument and data gathering techniques, the data analysis technique, and the research procedure.
A. Research Method
This study has an objective to know to what extent the use of weekly diary followed by the
teacher‟s feedback improves the students‟ writing abilities in the recount text. The most appropriate method for this research is classroom action
research CAR. According to Hermida 2001, “classroom action research is a
method of finding out what works best in your own classroom so that you can improve student learning” p. 38. It means that classroom action research will
help teacher to overcome students‟ problems and improve them through appropriate learning strategies. Latief 2009 also writes that the researcher can
help the students through some strategies through classroom action research if he or she has known the problems of the students p. 17.
This methodology was conducted to solve the problems found by the researcher. Classroom action research would help students of VIII D of SMPN 1
Wungu to improve their writing abilities in writing a recount text. When the
