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classroom action research consists of two cycles. In conducting the action research, there are four steps that are included such as : planning, action, observation, and
reflection.
3.4.1 Cycle I
a. Planning
Planning means program of action that will be done. Plan is needed to arrange and prepared everything that will be need in action stage. The arrangement and
preparation are included : 1 make a lesson plan which consists of the steps of the action, 2 prepare the teaching facilities, such as media in teaching, 3 prepare
research instrument, such as observation format to observe the teaching and learning process, and 4 prepare the test to measure student’s vocabulary mastery.
b. Action
Action is an implementation of planning. The writer should be flexible and welcome to the situation changing in the school. Thus, the action should be dynamic,
need immediately decision to be done , and completed simple evaluation. In this phase, the writer does everything that has be planned. The writer teach vocabulary by
using a guessing game. The activities can be seen in table 3.1
Table 3.1 The activities teaching vocabulary by using guessing game
Action Output
a. Dividing the students in some
groups. The students work cooperatively in their
team.
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b. Giving some flash card for each
team to be guessed.
What am I?
I am hot. I am shine. I am bright. I am yellow. I am in the sky. I am
always in afternoon. The student see their card. The student
translate word by word .
c. Students in a team standing in
front of the class and read the clue of pictureobject one by one. And
heshe speak clearly. Another students listen what heshe said
and discuss with their team about the answer.
d. If it is needed the student can
repeat about the clue for three twice.
Another students guess and say about the word their thinking.
e. Then, doing the same act for next
turn for another team. Each team have chances to guess about
word what they thinking.
f. After finishing doing this
Giving test for every students.
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technique
c. Observation
Observation is one of the instruments used in collecting the data to get informations of action in teaching learning process. Observation is done while the action
has done. The writer observed the students’ behavior, motivation and attitude during the lesson and interviewed the teacher to know the situation of class and students’
interaction. d.
Reflection Reflection is the feedback process of the action. It is used to help the teachers
make decision because the reflection is done in order to analyze the situation and make conclusion what to do next. In this phase, the writer will reflect anything that
has been done before. The reflecting process is based on the data, written test, and observation sheet. Then, based on the reflecting process, the second cycle will be
done. The second cycle will be a revision of the first cycle.
3.4.2 Cycle II
