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questions. Then, everyone gave applause for the success of teaching and learning that day
2. Second Meeting
a Joint Construction of Text
Students came into the class in the fourth period. Students answered teacher’s greeting and responded the teacher when he checked their attendance.
All the students were present. Teacher reviewed the previous lesson about importance of questions in constructing a recount text, YesNo questions and
Wh questions. The teacher asked “what famous event did you learn in the last meeting? Yeni said “AFF sir”. What else? The teacher asked again. “Tsunami
Sir” Valen answered. The teacher showed again some pictures of those importance events to remember more about them.
The teacher explained the learning goals that day. The first goal was that they had to be able to construct a factual recount text by using a set of questions
in group. The next goal was that they had to be able to construct a factual recount text based on the questions in the face book group discussion entitled
Learning English with Fun. Students listened to the teacher’s explanation. Then the students received worksheets that consisted of two activities. The first
activity was group activity and the second was individual one. Students did activity one in group of five or six. There were a set of
questions to be answered by group. The students were busy trying to understand the questions and looking up difficult words in the dictionary. When the teacher
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or collaborator came close to the group, mostly they asked the past verb form and word order. Group one and three looked up difficult words in Google
translation. Other group just looked up difficult words in the dictionary. Most group had divided tasks to every member. There were ten questions to answer.
The group with five members, they gave each member two questions to answer. In about 25 minutes, the group finished answering questions and revising it into
a recount text. Each group shared the result of their work in middle of the class and shared it in the Learning English with Fun face group discussion
b Independent Construction of Text
Students did activity individually. First, they had to understand the questions and then answered them. Then they had to arrange the answers into
good recount text. All students finished the activity. They also shared it in the Learning English with Fun, but not all students could finish sharing in the face
book. They had to finish the sharing the following day. Students were invited to make conclusion about the lesson that day. Most
students said that it was easier for them to write recount text although some of the questions were difficult to understand. Next the activity of arranging the
answers and revising them into a recount text needed much time. The activity of sharing into the face book discussion needed longer time. The time given by the
teacher was not enough to finish it. Then the teacher greeted the students and closed the meeting. Then all students gave applause for the success of the
learning process that day.
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3. Third Meeting
