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CHAPTER IV RESULT AND DISCUSSION
After conducting the observation for two cycles, hereby, I would spell out and analyzed the data into a clear form. This chapter presented the description of the
research and the result of the data collection during action research and the analysis of the data. I discussed the analysis of the overall result of the action
research in this chapter.
4.1. Description of the Research
I conducted an action research with two cycles in SMP N 18 Semarang in academic year of 20132014. The research started from October 2013 until
November 2014. There were four stages that I used in every cycle: 1 planning 2 acting, 3 observing, and 4 reflecting. I used the four stages of the
curriculum cycle at each meeting; building knowledge of the text, modeling of the text, joint construction of the text, and independent writing.The two tests
were conducted in two times, in initially was pre-test and post-test at the end of the research. The data that I collected was conducted during stages acting and
observing. Those stages conducted on November 12 up to 22, 2013.
4.2. Conducting Pre-test
I conducted a pre - test on the 8
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November 2013. There were two kinds of pre- test; close test and guided writing test. Time allotment that was given to the
students was around thirty minutes to complete each pre-test. I arranged the sitting position based on the student‟s number. The aim of arranging the students‟ sitting
position was to make sure that the students could not cheat with others. The first pre-test was close test, there were five texts and the students
should fill the blank spaces by the correct adjectives that researcher provided. The first three texts were set by the requirement of writing the appropriate adjectives.
There were twenty four items that students should complete. In the fourth text, there were eight items that students would meet the rules of writing the correct
comparative or superlative forms of the adjectives. The fifth text required the students to write the correct adjective order in series.
After the first half pre-test section, the students had to take the second pre- test in form of guided writing test. The students should write a short descriptive
text by the provided theme from me. The aim of guided writing test was to assess how far the students‟ ability in writing descriptive text by their own words.
4.3. Conducting Cycle 1
