Planning Implementation of Cycle 1

climate changing on our earth? What can cause all of those?” Some students looked confused and P repeated it again into bahasa Indonesia. Some students could answer P’s question “Global warming mbak, because global warming”. P responded students’ answer “Yes, that’s right. Global warming can cause the weather and climate changing so the temperature becomes hotter” So what can cause global warming class?” Some students could answer the question in English but only in word level and some others answered it with bahasa Indonesia. Field note 4, Friday, November 8 th , 2013 b. Implementing Directed Discussion Games The implementation of the directed discussion games in this cycle was conducted in two meetings. The topic that the students would discuss was global warming phenomena. The directed discussion games consisted of two kind of games, namely comment and pessimists optimist game. It required the students to express and sharing opinion each other. In this cycle, the directed discussion games were used as tools to initiate the students to communicate in English during the teaching and learning process. They worked collaboratively within the group to solve the problem related to the topic and shared it in front of the class later. The description of this action for each meeting is presented below. 1 1 st meeting The first meeting was implemented on Friday, November 8 th , 2013. The directed discussion games that were done in the first meeting were the comments game. The topic of the game is global warming which required the students to gather related information than discuss it within the group to find the best argument. The researcher used the learning technique of ESA engage, study, activate. In the first phase, the students could engage with the topic and looked the input text from the teacher. It helped them to build the context before arranging the discussion. By using a video about global warming changing from time to time, the students would know particular information and arouse their mind about the phenomena. Then, the students listened to the input text from the audio to give them the example of asking and giving information. The second phase of the teaching and learning process was study that would be done by the students with their group. There were 23 students that divided into six groups randomly. Each group would have their own discussion with the same topic for about twenty minutes. This stage gave the students opportunity to share their idea with their group and could train the students to practice English with their friend. They would hold a discussion and worked collaboratively while the teacher observed them. However, many students were reluctant to give their opinion and share it with their friend in the group. It could be seen from the observation note below. Most students did not know how to use the appropriate words. There were some students who shy and hesitate to express their argument in the discussion process and P assist them to limit the problem that being discussed. Field note 4, November 8 th , 2013 After found the information by conducting discussion, the students were asked to perform their discussion result in front of the class and the other group would give comment about it. Students activated their skill in speaking English through group performance in front of the class although there were some students who still looked shy and felt hesitate. It was the first time for them to have such activities like discussion games and it made the students confuse to speak up. It referred from the interview with the students from XI IPS1 class. R : Oke baiklah dek Damar dek Cintya sama dek Fitria semua yang baik hati saya mau tanya soal games tadi yang udah kita lakukan di kelas gimana menurut kalian? Well, Damar, Cintya and Fitria who are very kind. I want to ask you about the activities that we have done in the class. What is your opinion? S4 : Angel mbak, lha aku bingung e kadang mau ngomong apa kalo udah di depan gitu. Soalnya kan belum pernah sama sekali pas sama Bu Susan. It was so difficult to practice speaking in front of the class since we never get that from Mrs.Susan miss R : Kalo yang lain gimana? What about the other? S1 : Sebenarnya asik sih mbak tadi tu jadi nggak kerasa kalo itu pelajaran tapi besok diajarin lagi mbak bikin kalimat biar bisa bener. Actually, I really enjoy the game as if we were not in the English lesson but you have to tell us how to make appropriate sentence tomorrow Interview transcript 4, Friday, November 8 th , 2013 2 2 nd meeting This meeting was carried out on Wednesday, November 1, 2013. The directed discussion game in this meeting was still about sharing opinion and the topic was about wearing school uniform. In this meeting, the students would try to play the optimist and pessimist game like debate. First, the researcher divided the group into six groups and each group would get the number of turn and also the side. The optimist group would have debate with pessimist group after holding group discussion. To improve the students’ understanding in making the good sentence, the researcher explained about it for about ten minutes after they watch the video about wearing school uniform. Moreover, the researcher gave the list of words of school terms and pronounced it all.