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d. Observing and Monitoring the Action
Observing and monitoring are important to do, because it is done to know the students improvement in learning vocabulary. Observing and
monitoring are done during the implementation of the action while the students are doing the activity.
In the process of the observation the researcher was helped by the teacher. One of the rules in the TPR is that students are not allowed to speak
before they are ready to speak. In the teaching learning process in this cycle, many of the students repeated what the teacher said, although she had given
a sign to keep silent or not to repeat the teacher’s words. The teacher and the
researcher explain that the students were ready to speak and she decided to
continue the process into the role reversal stage, but it was wrong. The teacher and the researcher’ decision to continue the process into the next
stage role reversal stage was too early. The fact was that the students had not understood yet. It caused the students could not give a command.
Furthermore, the researcher also found that there were some improvement in studying vocabulary and the students were more active and enthusiastic in
joining the teaching learning process. From the observation, the researcher got the result as follows. The activities of teaching and learning vocabulary
mastery using TPR generally ran well. First, the students could pronounce the words correctly. Second, the students can use of words easier. Third, the
students could spell the words correctly. The last, the students could conducted the meaning.
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vocabulary mastery was improved. The improvement of the students’ vocabulary mastery can be seen from the
mean score in task in cycle 1 below:
Table 1.The Improvement of the students’ vocabulary mastery No
Indicator Cycle 1
M 1 M 2
M 3
1 Spell
3.5 3.6
3.8 2
Pronounce 1.4
2.2 2.3
3 Meaning
2.5 2.8
3.5 4
Use of words 1.1
1.7 1.8
e. Evaluating and reflecting the Result of the Observation
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