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4.1.4 The Posttest Activities In this research, posttest activity only took a day. It was because the
experimental and the control groups had the same English schedule on Wednesday. Therefore, the researcher could do the posttest in a day. It was held
on April 22, 2015 on the third and fourth occasion for the experimental group and on the fifth and sixth occasion for the control group. The experimental and the
control groups received the same instruction for the posttest. They had to construct recount paragraph writing with the topic “Unforgettable Moment”. It
took about 60 minutes for each class.
4.2 The Supporting Data
The supporting data of this research were obtained from the documentation and were also supported by the result of the interview with the English teacher.
4.2.1 The Interview The interview was conducted informally with the eighth grade English
teacher of SMPN 4 Jember on September 9
th
, 2014. According to the English teacher, English was taught twice a week for each class, and the curriculum used
was Institutional based curriculum KTSP 2006. She taught recount writing by using
students’ work sheet “Galileo” and applying Question-Answer method. In applying Question-Answer method, the English teacher of the eighth grade gave a
topic then asked the students about some questions related to the topic. After that, the teacher gave some topics to the students. The students had to choose one topic
only then wrote down the experience they had based on the topic they chose. In conclusion, the teacher never used composite picture as the instructional media in
teaching writing. For the stude nts’ ability, the teacher said that most of students
still had difficulties in using the correct grammar and arranging some sentences in sequence because they did not know some transition signals that should be used to
construct recount writing.
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4.2.2 The documents Documentation in this research was used to get the supporting data about the
list of the names of the respondents and the total number of the eighth grade students of SMPN 4 Jember. The total number of the eighth grade students of
SMPN 4 Jember in the 20142015 academic year was 250 students consisting of 7 classes the distribution of the students can be seen in Table 4.4
Table 4.4 The Total Number of the Eighth Grade Students of SMPN 4 Jember in the 20142015 Academic Year
No. Class
Male Female
Total 1. VIII A
10 26
36 2. VIII B
14 22
36 3. VIII C
12 24
36 4. VIII D
11 25
36 5. VIII E
14 20
34 6. VIII F
11 25
36 7. VIII G
13 23
36 Source: SMPN 4 Jember
4.3 The Analysis of the Students’ Score
