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be more efficient and the students would not get confused of the teaching learning method given, that could be caused by the delayed time of the teaching learning
process. For the second meeting, the researcher conducted the second action. The
second or final post-test was conducted in the third meeting. The whole process of the action research conducted by the researcher was as follows:
3.7.1 Cycle 1
In this study, the researcher collaborated with the English teacher to conduct the research. After discussing about the possible cause of the students’
problem dealing with pronunciation, the plan of the research was prepared. The cycle consists of:
3.7.1.1 Planning
The researcher made a plan as follows: 1
Planning the pre test and deciding the material for teaching 2
Making a lesson plan based on the teaching material 3
Preparing teaching media such as material, tape recorder, etc. 4
Making the instruments to collect the data such as scoring table, interview sheet and field notes outline
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3.7.1.2 Acting
In this step, the researcher conducted the plan that had been prepared. There were 3 main activities in acting process.
1 Pre test
The researcher conducted a pre test to know about students’ initial ability in pronouncing English words, phrases and sentences. Students were asked to
pronounce some words, phrases or sentences that had been prepared by the researcher. Then, the pronunciation was recorded and scored. The researcher then
analyzed the result.
2 Action or teaching and learning process
Here, researcher explained about the method of English pronunciation learning that would be given. Students were taught how to improve their
pronouncing skill through audiolingual method.
3 Post-test
After getting drilled, students were asked to pronounce some English words, phrases or sentences again. The pronunciation was recorded and then was
scored. The researcher analyzed the change of the quality of pronunciation reached by the students.
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3.7.1.3 Observing
The researcher observed the activities during teaching learning process. The researcher took notes some information related to the process. They were
about students’ participation, behavior, interests, improvement and difficulties. The collected data was analyzed and described as a qualitative data.
3.7.1.4 Reflecting
In this step, the researcher evaluated the change of students’ quality of pronunciation. The evaluation was taken by analyzing the result of the method
given and the improvement of pronunciation made by students. The analysis was used to find the negative side of the method and to decide the next cycle that
revises the previous one.
3.7.2 Cycle 2
