Reconnaissance Planning Procedure of the Research

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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS

A. Research Findings

1. Reconnaissance

a. The Identification of the Field Problems

The identification of the problems was important in this study. It helped the researcher getting accurate data needed for this study. In identification the problems, the researcher focused on some elements of teaching. They were students, teachers, materials, and media. Those elements of teaching, of course, became the main factors determining the success of English teaching and learning. In the teaching and learning process, those elements required to be developed because the problems both hard and simple problems were determined and influenced by those elements of teaching. In line with the research conducted, to know the problems faced by those elements of teaching, the researcher used some instruments of the research. They were observation and interview. Those instruments were the effective ways to collect the data about the problems in the teaching and learning English. In the observation, the researcher observed the teacher‟s activities in the teaching of English, while the interview was used to know the problems in the English teaching and learning process. In identifying the problems, the researcher used the results of observation. The purpose was to identify the problems, especially about the students, teacher, materials, and media. The result of the identification of the problems was stated below. 1 The first problem was related to students‟ participation. Many students of class VIII did not participate actively in the English teaching and learning. When the teacher asked questions, only a few of them answered it. Some of them were silent; the rest made some noise and did something unrelated to the learning process; 2 The second problem was related to students‟ cooperation. It was uncommon for the students to discuss with their friends related to problems in learning and tasks given by the teacher. It happened because of the most learning activities were done individually; 3 The last problem revealed more when learners tried to participate in the leaning process but many factors stopped them to do so. Such factors referred to the feeling of shyness because of the feeling linguistically inferiority and fear of making mistakes if they would speak to critical audiencesstudents.