Teaching Grammatical Points Actions and Observations in Cycle I
effective. The students enjoyed learning-teaching activities in different ways. Using the power point presentation supported the activities in the classroom since
it was big class. The power point presentation is used also to attract their attention so that they would attend the class activities. The handouts and pictures ease them
in learning process. The process can be seen in the following quotation of the vignette.
Other media that were used in the class were the handouts. The students were easily involved in the learning activities when the handouts were given to
them. They were given the handouts about the materials. Some tasks were provided in the handouts so they could do the tasks. The handouts helped the
students to get involved in the activities in the class. The description is presented below.
…After that, R called Ss’ names one by one to check whether some Ss could not join the class. R turned on the LCD and started the materials by
presenting the first slide about picture of Nyi Roro Kidul. R explored their knowledge about Nyi Roro Kidul and the narrative text through the picture
and several questions. R
showed the picture and said, “Well, look at the slide. Who is the woman on the picture?” They said “Nyi Roro Kidul”. And then, I
continued my questions “Who is she? Is she superhero?” They replied, “No,
she is a legend dari pantai selatan”, I replied “Good, very good she is a legend from south sea”.
Vignette 1: Friday, April 4, 2014
The pictures series were taken from internet. The pictures series were appropriate with the texts. The students retold the story through the pictures
series that were showed in the class. The students were ashamed to retell the story, so they needed guidance to retell the story through picture series. They
were worried about making the mistakes. So, the students were helped by the teacher and the picture series. The description of the situations is presented
below.
Informal interview with the students were done to know their opinion about using the power point presentation, the handouts, and the pictures in
English class. The students agreed that those media useful in the classroom activities. The students thought that the media also interesting so it can attract
…R distributed handouts one by one to ease Ss to get involved in the learning activities. In the handouts, there were several words included the
word classes and R asked them to identify the meanings of the words. R showed the word classes to ease them in understanding the grammatical points
of the text. Then R asked them to find difficult words in the text. They mentioned several words like ulcer, cure, stink, and noble. R asked them to
find the meaning of the words through guessing.
Vignette 1: Friday, April 4, 2014
…After R and Ss checked the answer together, R asked one of them to tell the story of the text through picture series. R gave them several pictures
and asked them to tell the story through the pictures. However, no one raised their hands so R asked one of them again and said that I would help
them. Suddenly, one of them raised his hand and retold the story in front of the class. Then R guided him to retell the story in English. He could tell the
story well in front of his friends. After he finished the story, R and other Ss gave him a big applause. Then R asked another S to do the same however
suddenly the ball rang, so R finished the class. R
said, “Good bye and see you in the
next meeting. Keep learning.” Vignette 3: Friday, April 11, 2014
their attention. The pictures series in the classroom helped them to be confident in English. The pictures were presented in the text to show the situation of the text.
It also helped the students in building their knowledge about the text. The transcript of the interview presented below.
All of them helped the students to get involved in the learning process. The whiteboard was used to write some difficult words. Some words such as
“through” or “rough” were difficult to pronounce by the students. They also still made mistakes to pronounce some words in passive form which ended with ded.
So, through writing those words in the whiteboard, the students could learn it together. It was also used to explain the words directly.