Whilst Teaching Suggestions 1. To the Students

eats fish,” could be guessed by various names of animal as long as they were suitable with the description. Some students guessed correctly by answering “cat”, but some of them answered “polar bear.” The task was discussed until they really understood. R explained that they could relate the descriptions with the animals they usually found in their daily life. They also were encouraged to guess the unfamiliar words found in each description. The bell hadn’t gone yet so that the students were told that they would learn a text in the next meeting. The topic would be still about describing animals. Before closing the class, R reviewed the materials that had been learnt in that meeting and asked them if there were questions or not. The students had no questions at that time so that she closed the class by saying “See you on Saturday and Wassalamu’alaikum, wr.wb.” No. Date Time Class R C Ss : : : : : : : Vignatte. 3 Implementation of Cycle 1, meeting II Tuesday, February 10 th 2015 09.55-11.15 VII C Researcher Collaborator Students R entered the class at 09.55 with ET and C. The students quickly entered the classroom. They had to move from one class to the others according to the subject that would be learnt since the school had implemented the moving class system for the seventh grade. The ET asked for permission since he could not observe the class at that time. R greeted the students by saying “Assalamu’alaikum, wr.wb” and asked their condition by saying “How are you today. Then, she asked the student’s attendance by saying “Who’s absent today.” Unfortunately, there was one student who did not come to the class because he was sick. R began the lesson by asking the materials that they learnt in the last meeting. Some students said “describing animals” and the others said “bagian- bagian tubuh binatang, Miss.” Then, she asked them to mention some parts of animals’ body that they still remembered. Most of the students could mention them both in English and bahasa Indonesia. After that, she said that at that day, they would learn a text about an animal. The students still worked in groups and she spread out the worksheet for each group. They were asked to look at activity 5. It was a text about “Broni”, a pomeranian dog and then they were given five minutes to read the text. After five minutes, she asked them if they already understood with the text. Some of them said “sedikit mengerti, Miss” but, the others said “not yet.” Most of them said that there were many unfamiliar words which were not known the meaning yet. To solve the problem, she spread out a VSS chart to each group and explained how to use the chart. In that occasion, they had to collect the key vocabularies that they thought that the words were important and the unfamiliar words. They also had to write the reason for selecting the words and the meaning if they already knew. During the activity, she walked around to control each group and answered some questions they asked. After filling the chart, the representative of each group was asked to write the selected words on the board involving their reason and meaning. Most of the groups wrote that they did not know the meaning yet for the selected words. However, there was one group writing “The word describes Broni’s dog species” and “The word describes Broni’s body part” for the selected words “Pomeranian and spread.” The discussion was continued by giving the clues for defining the unfamiliar words they selected into bahasa Indonesia. They were asked to guess the meaning of the words from the context of the text. For instance, they were asked to see the word “loudly” in which the Indonesian meaning was “dengan keras” for the unfamiliar word “bark.” It was related to the sound as well so that they could define it easier. The Indonesian meaning was “menggonggong” for the word “bark” in the sentence “It always barks loudly to the strangers.” The students were asked to read the sentences or paragraph more and more if they did not know the meaning yet. The next activity was answering some questions related to the text. Firstly, it was about choosing between true or false statements. In this activity, the students had to give the evidence of their answer by showing it from the text. If the statement was true, then they had to read it loudly. However, if the statement was false, they had to mention the correct one to the class. Secondly, the questions were about short answer questions in which the answer could be explicitly or implicitly stated in the text. The activity tested their reading comprehension after using the strategy. Most of groups answered correctly. Yet, they made a lot of noises during doing the activity and some of them were chatting with their friends. The time was almost up. The R reviewed the materials and asked the students if there were any questions. Then, she told that they would learn the new materials in the next meeting. The class was closed by saying “See you next week and Wassalamu’alaikum, wr.wb.” No. Date Time Class R C ET Ss : : : : : : : : Vignatte. 4 Implementation of Cycle 1I, meeting I Saturday, February 14 th 2015 09.55-11.15 VII C Researcher Collaborator English Teacher Students