Developing the research instruments

continued No. Actions Expected Improvement to Achieve 2. Vocabulary practices The students had more opportunity to enrich their vocabulary. 3. Using classroom English optimally during the teaching and learning process. The students could improve their comprehension and they were accustomed to listening to English. The students had more opportunity to speak English. The students enlarged their vocabulary and gained new expressions. 4. Employing the video recording project. The students had higher self- confidence to express their ideas freely. The students actively participated during the lesson. The students were not afraid of making mistakes. The students had more opportunity to speak English. The activities during the lesson became enjoyable and interesting. 5. Using interesting media like videos, recordings, pictures, and authentic materials. The students mastered good pronunciation and vocabulary by watching videos and listening to the recordings. The students would see the real communication presented by native speakers of English through videos. The students could create the visualization of what they were going to learn through pictures The students were highly motivated in learning the target language through various interesting media. The students could improve their comprehension and they were accustomed to listening to English. 6. Giving handout related to the topic. The students received various sources of learning materials 7. Giving feedback on the students’ work. The students were not afraid of making mistakes when they spoke English. continued continued No. Actions Expected Improvement to Achieve 8. Asking the students to bring dictionaries. The students mastered a good pronunciation and vocabulary. Based on the result of the discussion with the English teacher, the researcher would act as the classroom teacher while the English teacher would act as the collaborator during the research. The planned actions implemented in the Cycle I were:

a. Implementing the video recording project

By implementing the video recording project, it would give more opportunity to the students to practice speaking English. This activity was really fun since in the video recording project, the students established the video-making by themselves while learning the target language. The video-making topic chosen fitted with the materials in the basic competence. Below are the procedures of how to carry out the video recording project in Cycle 1. Preparation of online poem recitation competition 1 Find a partner because it is done in pairs. 2 Discuss the poem to be recited whether it was their own or someone else’s poem. 3 Do your poem recitation rehearsal before recording the video project. Video recording of online poem recitation competition 1 Listen to the teacher’s instruction to conduct the video recording.