The Analysis of the First Activity

CHAPTER IV DATA ANALYSIS

4.1 The Description of the Result of the First Cycle

I intend to elaborate each of the data collected from the activities.

4.1.1 The Analysis of the First Activity

The first activity was conducted on 13 December 2006. In this activity I decided to give a questionnaire to the students first, because I needed to gather the data which supported this action research. I intended to know their needs and opinions. It was about the students’ background and their interest in writing. I considered giving this questionnaire to check the influence of these factors on their writing achievement. They only needed 10 minutes to do the questionnaire. The students’ answers in the given questionnaire provided me the data of 39 students in VIIIA. Most of them realized that English is important for them. There was only 7.69 stated that English is not important for them. Unfortunately, there was only 25.64 reviewed their English material at home regularly. The rest that was about 74.36 studied English if only they had a test. They also had limited facilities in learning English. Most of them had no reference book. They only borrowed the compulsory book from the library. There was only 2.80 among them who had other English book. All of the students had studied narrative when they were in the first grade. The teacher also taught a fairy tale as the material. But there were 17.95 among them 48 49 who gave negative response on this item. There were 7.69 of those rejected that they had learn fairy tales and the rest 10.26 was still confused to give answer. Most of them confessed that they forgot the linguistic features of narrative. There was only 12.82 stated that they still remembered the material about narrative given to them. However, they gave good responses to learn narrative. They were interested in learning narrative using fairy tales. Based on the data above, I could conclude that most of the students depended on the teacher’s explanation and help at school. They put bigger hope on their teacher and relied so much on what the teacher had explained in class. Considering this situation I told them that they should be more independent in learning English. They should review their lesson regularly at home to get better achievement especially in their writing. I also told hem that we would have an action research to improve their narrative writing ability using fairy tales. They were supposed to study harder and attended the class enthusiastically. Hopefully, the students would get better understanding in narrative.

4.1.2 The Analysis of the Second Activity