Questionnaire Reading Test Field Notes Observation Check List

3.4.2 Tests

Tests were given to measure the students‘ reading comprehension achievement, and administered three times; namely, the pre test, cycle test 1, cycle test 2, and post test. Here, the pre test was given to see the student‘s reading comprehension skill before the treatment, while the cycle test was given to measure the students‘ improvement in every cycle after the treatment in the first and second cycle, the last was post test which was given to see the students‘ reading comprehension mastery after the treatment in the first and second cycle. The writer also did some observations when teaching using picture matching game to find out the students‘ motivation improvement in reading comprehension.

3.5 Instruments for Collecting Data

In this study, I used field notes, reading test, questionnaire, observation check list and documentation as instrument.

3.5.1 Questionnaire

There were two kinds of questionnaire used in this study. They were the problem questionnaire and motivation questionnaire. The problem questionnaire was used in the pre-observation to find out the problems faced by the students in mastering narrative reading comprehension. It consisted of 10 question items. The motivation questionnaire was used at the end of the research. The questionnaire consisted of 10 questions, which represented the knowledge, opinions, ideas and the condition of students. The result of the questionnaire was given to the students to measure the their improvement in reading comprehension.

3.5.2 Reading Test

Tests were given to the students to measure the improvement of their reading skill. The test was conducted before the treatment, to determine the problems arose, and at the end of all treatments. The test was in the form of reading comprehension test, consisting of 20 questions, which consist of 3 form questions they were 5 numbers of short answer questions, 10 numbers of cloze test form, and 5 numbers of True False test form. The test which was done before the treatment was called the pre-test, which showed the initial condition of the students. The test which was done after all treatments was called the final test, which showed the improvement of the students.

3.5.3 Field Notes

The writer used field notes to find out the activities during the teaching learning process, such as how the teacher carried out the material and the students‘ response. In using field notes, the writer kept notes of the classroom situation right after the class was dismissed.

3.5.4 Observation Check List

The observation check list was consisted of ten statements to measure the students‘ good and bad behavior during the teaching and learning process. The result of the observation check list was used to measure the students‘ motivation in learning narrative reading comprehension.

3.6 Method of Analysing Data

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