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could not afford to buy English book or English references. They only had LKS or exercise books and small English dictionary.
The students did not have good motivation to learn English but not all of them. The teachers had to work hard to make them enjoy in this school by
giving motivation continuously. For example: the teacher says,” Students, don’t be afraid to make mistakes,” or “ Don’t be ashame,” Everyday the
students came to class, sit on their chairs and most of them just kept silent or absent minded during the lesson. They did like this because they have less
support or motivation from themselves, their family or environment to study. Sometimes some of them were away from school for some days without
permision.Fortunately, the teachers gave them more attention. If they did not come at least three days, the
Guru BP
and
Wali Kelas
visited their homes to know what happened and gave motivation to them in order to go back to
school again. In this class, the students were interested in English subject although
they had heterogeneous ability. However, in comprehending reading passage, they found diffulties in new vocabulary and finding information from the text.
That was why the researcher conducted the classroom action research in order to solve the problems.
C. Research Method
The method used in this research is action research. There are various definitions of action research by some experts.
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Lomax 1990: 10 states that action research is a way of defining and implementing relevant professional development. It is able to harness forms of
collaboration and participation that are part of our professional rhetoric but are rarely effective in practice...it...starts small with a single commited person
focusing on hisher practice. It gains momentum through the involvement of others as collaborators. It spreads as individuals reflect on the nature of their
panticipation, and the principle of shared ownership of practice is established. It can result in the formation of a self-critical community: extended
professional in the best sense of the term. McNiff, Lomax, and Whitehead 1996: 7 state that action research is a
form practitioner research that can be used to help heshe improves hisher professional practices in many different types of workplaces. Practitioner
research simply means that the research is done individuals themselves into their own practices. For example one of us Jean has been working in a
school with a group of teachers and parents, exploring together how they might evolve a ‘code of behaviour’ for the home-school community.rather
than simply write out a code, they decided to see if they could live their beliefs first and then write down a description of what they had done, drawing the
code out of the observation of their practice. Parents, teachers and children worked together in the livingrooms as well as in classrooms on this project.
The notion of research was demystified because they built together a perception of research as a vehicle for improving the quality of their life in
their own social context.
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Classroom action begins with a questions about classroom experiences, issues, or challenges. It is a reflective process which helps teachers to explore
and examine aspects of teaching and learning and take action to chance and improve.
D. Procedures of the research
