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4. Findings after implementing CAR
a. The Result of Post Interview
Unstructured interview was conducted on Monday, May 2
nd
2011. It started at 12.00 p.m. and finished at 12.30 p.m. In this case, the
researcher divided into three criteria of questions .
First criterion talked about the general condition in class during implementing the action. It
was found that the students’ condition were better than before. In this phase, they looked interested in the lesson; enjoy following the lesson
and feeling easier to remember vocabulary by using vocabulary card technique. The students’ participation was good because the activity in
the classroom involved the students. Second criterion was about the problem and its solution in
implementing vocabulary card technique during implementing the action.
There were some students do not bring their vocabulary card in the English class while doing a research. The researcher discuss with
the teacher to solve the problems, and after the discussion finally the problem solving by giving a punishment to the students who do not
obey the rule such as do not bring their last vocabulary card and dictionary minimally 1 for two person.
The last criterion is about the opinion of vocabulary card technique. It was said that
vocabulary card was a good technique to solve students’ vocabulary problem and retain their last vocabulary. It could be an
effective way to help the students’ vocabulary. Vocabulary card could
be an alternative strategy and motivate the English teacher to use it. See appendix 2b for detail result of interview.
From the description above, it could be drawn the general conclusion from the post interview that the teacher gave a positive
response about the implementation of vocabulary card technique.
b. The Result of Post Questionnaire
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The post-questionnaire was conducted on Monday, 25
th
April 2011. This questionnaire used
to know about the students’ response after learning vocabulary card through vocabulary card technique.
The questionnaire had fifteen questions which revealed in four categories:
The students’ response about teaching learning process number 1, 3 14, the result of the students vocabulary learning activity number 7, 8,
11, 13 15, the solution of the problems in vocabulary number 12, and the last issue the students responses about vocabulary card
technique number 2, 4, 5, 6, 9 10 .
The table below showed the result of post questionnaire.
The first category in table 4.4
was the students’ response about teaching-learning process in learning English vocabulary. From the data
above it indicated that 100 students said yes, it indicated in the table that all of the students were interested in the teaching-learning process
through vocabulary card. Nex t item is students’ motivation in learning
vocabulary through vocabulary card, shows that 66.6 of the students understood the teacher’s explanation. The last item about the
comparison between learning through vocabulary card than the usual learning It is about 60 of students feel better to learn through
vocabulary card than usual learning. It means that most of the student first grade of MTs. Nurul Falah like English vocabulary lesson.
The Second category
is the result of students’ vocabulary achievement.
The first data above number 7 indicated that 76.6 of students were helped in retaining their vocabularies through vocabulary
card. The second item is the students felt that vocabulary card can solve their vocabulary problems is about 53.3 . The third item is about is
about 56.6 of students could do their vocabulary task easily by using vocabulary card. The fourth item indicate 70 of
students’ score were increase after implementing the vocabulary card, fifth item then
indicated that the students’ score were increase after then. The last item
t he students’ vocabulary was enriched by vocabulary card is about 80.
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The third category asks the solution of the problem in vocabulary
learning. In this case the teacher gave opportunity to ask their difficulties, about 16 students said yes or 53.3 of students said that
the teacher gave them an opportunity to ask their difficulties in vocabulary. It was indicated that half of student were actively involved
in the teaching-learning process.
The last category asks the
Students’ Response about Vocabulary card Technique. The first item in this category asks about the students
feel better in learning vocabulary through vocabulary card it was indicated that 80 students agreed that they feel better in learning
vocabulary through vocabulary card. The second item indicated that 86.6 of students said that vocabulary card is suitable to be implied in
teaching-learning vocabulary. The third item it indicated that 66.6 of students said that they feel more understand the vocabulary easily. The
fourth item indicated that 76.6 of students like learning vocabulary through vocabulary card. The fifth item it is about 100 of students
feels that vocabulary card facilitate their vocabulary learning, it means that they are agree that vocabulary card help them in retaining their
vocabulary. The last item indicated that 66.6 of students could remember both their previous vocabulary and the new word easily.
To sump up, Table 4.5 indicated that 72.9 students agreed that vocabulary card technique motivated them to retain their English
vocabulary learning and memorizing.
B. The Interpretation of the Data
In the classroom action research, researcher should not rely on any single data but we have to look the various data sources to sustain the result
of research. Data sources used in this study was triangulation. It was used to know and to check whether the result of each instrument was in line with the
result of other instrument. So it could produce the validity of the data and it could be clearly seen the accordance of the research findings.
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