Giving more feedback written
learnt from the given photographs. They could develop sentences by using their own words. They became more aware of the use of tenses in descriptive texts.
4. The students became more confidence and independent when they wrote. The
frequencies of students‟ questions when they wrote were decreased. 5.
Eventually, the students‟ writing performance was also improved. It was clearly shown by their final writing products which were much better than the pre-test.
Their scores and their main scores were also significantly improved. 6.
Using the photographs made th e students‟ attention decreasing. They liked
enthusiastic joining the class. 7.
Giving more feedback written even oral to the students related to their writing performance in the personal consultation session could enhance the students‟
writing performance related to their writing mechanism. They could be more aware on how to use capitalization and punctuation comma and full stops and
they became more critical on these aspects when they checked their friends writing product.
8. The students‟ participation in class could be promoted by the pair and group
work. Students enjoyed to work together and helped each other to do the given tasks.
9. Giving rewards to the active students could improve the students‟ motivation to
participate actively in class.
Table 4. 7 The Changes Before and After Implementation No
Before the actions were
conducted After the actions conducted
Cycle I Cycle II
1. The students had
low motivation in learning English
and
low enthusiasm in the
class activity The students‟ motivation
increased higher than before the actions were
conducted. Many students become happier and more
motivated to join the activities. However, there
were still some students reluctant to join the class.
The students‟ motivation got higher than in cycle I.
Most students were highly motivated to join the class.
2. The students got
difficulties to express what they
wanted to write and they were
afraid to make some mistakes in
writing. The students could start
constructing their sentence. However, they
still made some mistakes and errors. Some
additional exercise were needed by them to
decrease their mistakes and errors related to the
grammar used The students could construct
their sentences and decrease their mistakes and errors in
making their own sentences.
3. The students were
confused when they were asked
to write as they found difficulties
in generating ideas.
The students were able to generate ideas and
compose them to be their own texts creatively by
using the photographs as the media. However, their
confidence was still low and they were still not
independent. Some students still asked certain
words that they wanted to use without individually
finding themselves by using dictionary as one of
their supporting learning aids.
Most students could generate ideas and
creatively could compose the ideas into their own
texts independently. Their frequency of asking
decreased and they used maximally dictionary as one
of their supporting learning aids. They also had more
confidence during producing their writing
product.
4. The students still
made many mistakes and
Students knew and became more aware of their
writing mechanism Their problems in writing
mechanism including the use of spelling, punctuation
errors in their writing
mechanism such as in spelling,
punctuation and capitalization.
including the use of spelling, punctuation and
capitalization. They always checked their
writing product before submitting.
and capitalization significantly decreased.