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qualitative method which was explained descriptively. Moreover, the test was conducted merely to measure the oral grammatical mistakes done by the students.
In addition, a questionnaire and students’ observation sheet were also used to collect the data.
3.5 Procedures of Collecting Data
The data collection activities were conducted through several steps. First, I fulfilled some formal administrative procedures to get the school
principal’s permission to conduct the research. As soon as the permission was given, I met the English teacher to make an appointment for doing the
observation. The activities were explained below:
3.5.1 Observation
As stated above, the observation was done by interviewing the English teacher and also observed the students’ behaviors when they were taught by the teacher in
the classroom. Then, the information I got from the teacher about the students behaviors was used to determine how the treatment would be given.
3.5.2 Cycle 1
1 Planning
Before conducting the classroom action research, I held a pre-test by recording the students’ speaking in a dialog. From this recording, I found the students problems.
An observation was also done to make sure what problems faced by the students
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and what the solution to overcome it. After knowing the students’ problem that was the mastery of simple past, I planned to conduct an action resaerch by
applying Audio-lingual Method as the treatments given to the students. 2
Acting After analyzing the recording taken on the pre-test, it showed that there were oral
grammatical mistakes done by the students. Then, I conducted the classroom action research in cycle 1. There were three meetings in this cycle. They were two
treatments and cycle 1 test. I acted as a teacher and taught the students. I taught them oral simple past by using Audio-lingual Method. Single slot substitition and
transformation drills were applied in this cycle. Those two drills were used to teach the students.
3 Observing
In this step, the cycle 1 test was held to measure how far the students achieved the treatments to overcome the oral grammatical mistakes. During this first cycle, I
observed the students’ behavior in receiving the materials and interacting the teaching learning activities. An observation list was used by the researcher to
facilitate him on it. The recording of the students’ performance during the test and their dialog transcripts then used as the data in this cycle 1.
4 Reflecting
I reviewed the treatments and the cycle 1 test in the first cycle. The goal was to analyze whether there was lackness or not. The frequency of students produced
the oral grammatical mistakes still occured. Then, it was necessarily added in the
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second cycle activities. The technique to overcome those problems was by using the transformation drill.
3.5.3 Cycle 2
