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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
A. Research Procedure
There were some stages that were conducted in this research to solve the problem. Those are planning, observation, action and reflection. Each phase will be
presented further in this chapter. The first stage was planning. In this stage, I worked collaboratively with the
English teacher to determine the problem related to the reading skills in the class. The English teacher was interviewed to find the problem in the teaching and learning
process. It was done to get the most suitable class to conduct the research. According to the teacher, the most suitable class to conduct the research was class of VII-C. The
second stage was observing. The observation was done in the VII-C class of SMPN 1 Jogonalan, as the English teacher suggested. To identify the problems in the teaching
and learning process, interview with both the English teacher and some students was conducted after doing observation. The interview was aimed to specify the found
problems from the field note and to add clear description about the reading skill problem. In the third stage that was the action stage, I planned the actions that might
be implemented to overcome the problems. In this action phase, I implemented PALS in the teaching and learning process of reading. The actions were conducted to know
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the students’ responses and the impact of the actions. During the implementation, the English teacher, the collaborator, and I observed the condition of the teaching and
learning process. It was done to know the students’ responses and the impact of the actions. The actions were conducted in two cycles for two meetings in each cycle. In
the last stage, reflections were done on each meeting and each cycle. They were conducted to evaluate the actions and to solve the other problems during the actions.
Reflections were needed to find out the problem that might came up during the teaching and learning process and also to avoid the same mistake happened in the
following meeting.
1. Identification of the Field Problems
The identification of the field problems was done after conducting observation and interviewing both English teacher and some students of class VII-C of SMPN 1
Jogonalan for one a half hours on Friday November 1
st
2013. The situational condition of the teaching and learning process was described in the following field
note observation below. Mrs. E entered the class of VII-C and greeted the students. Then she asked the
chief of the class to lead the morning prayers. After the prayer, Mrs. E checked the attendance list that day. Then, she introduced P who already sat on the last
row and ready to observe the teaching and learning process on that day. After
that, Mrs. E started the lesson by checking the students’ last homework, which was description text. Then Mrs. E discussed the difficult words the students may
found in the text and discussed the content of the text. She also discussed the answers related to the questions from the text, one by one. She used both Bahasa
Indonesia and English to ease the students understand the discussion. After the discussion finished, Mrs. E asked whether there was any question from the
students or not. No one asked, and Mrs. E finished the lesson by greeting the students. Field note 1, Friday, November, 1
st
, 2013
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