5. Developing new plan and cycle
After conducting the first cycle and evaluating the result, some ideas as what to do next began to be clear. Then, researcher and the English teacher
developed new plan and actions to be implemented in the next cycle, so that the changes can be noted systematically over periods.
Figure 1. Cyclical Action Research Model by Kemmis and McTaggart 1988
C. Research Subjects
The subjects of the study were grade VIIA students of SMPN 1 Trucuk, the English teacher who acted as the collaborator and the researcher. There were
18 male students and 10 female students who took part in the research. The reason of taking the students is because they were the first grade students who have low
ability in learning English especially in the speaking skill. The students were chosen because the result of the observation showed that they had difficulties in
speaking. The speaking problems need to be solved soon. Therefore, the researcher and the collaborator worked cooperatively to bring about better results
on their speaking ability.
D. Research Setting
This research was conducted within in the end of the second semester of VII grade students in the 20132014 academic year at SMPN 1 Trucuk. The whole
process of this research was conducted from April to May 2014.This school is located at Gaden, Trucuk, Klaten.
E. Data Collection Technique
There were qualitative and quantitative data in this research. The qualitative data provided evidences of the students’ attitude towards the teaching
and learning process and the description of their speaking skill. The qualitative datawere collected by conducting the observations and interviews. Those data are
aimed to describe the process and the changes after the implementation of the actions. The researcher collected the qualitative data in the form of opinions,
suggestions, preferences, comments, and expectation from the research members. Meanwhile the quantitative data were collected in the forms of number and it was
to support the qualitative one. The researcher made a speaking pre-test and post- test as a part of monitoring sequences which aimed to get statistical evidence of
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