The Result of Pre Interview

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CHAPTER IV RESULT AND DISCUSSION

This chapter presents the result of research. In this case, it discuses the way to improve students’ grammar comprehension of passive form of the Present Continuous Tense by using pattern drill at X grade of SMK Bina Insani Tangerang academic year 2011-2012. Related to the discussion of the result, it is divided into three parts. Those are before implementing the action, the implementation of the action, and discussion of all the data after implementing the action.

A. Before Implementing the Action

These are three parts that include before implementing the action. Those are pre interview, pre observation, and pre test. The exhalations about them as follow:

1. The Result of Pre Interview

Before implementing the action, the writer needs to know the general account about the process of teaching and learning activity in the classroom that include the condition of the class when the teaching learning activity, in this case is English subject, is taking place, the difficulties that students face in understanding the grammatical rules especially the passive form, and also the teaching strategies that the teacher used to solve the students’ difficulties in understanding the grammar rules before implementing Classroom Action Research CAR. The first discussion is about the condition in the classroom when teaching learning activity is taking place. The teacher said most of students face some difficulties to understand the grammar rules in this case is tenses, they said that they were confuse because too many tenses that they have to learn. Moreover, every tense has each different rule. So, they thought English is very hard to learn and complicated with many pattern of grammar rules that they have to remember. Considering to that 36 condition, the teacher said that it is very hard to the students to pass the criterion of minimum completeness KKM in English subject. The second discussion is about the difficulties that students face in understanding the grammatical rules especially passive form. With many different pattern of tense that they have to remember in active form, also they have to remember some patterns in passive form. The teacher said that most of the students were not understand yet about the active form, but they are insisted to know how to change the active to the passive form which has different pattern in each tenses, so they have to remember again some patterns of that changing that absolutely increase their confusedness. Next, the teacher stated that the students were hardly to concentrate when they learned new tenses. It happened because when they were not really understood yet, they have to learn the new tense with the new different pattern from the previous tense. The teacher even had given sufficient time to the students to absorb the material by giving them some practices including homework, but it did not solve the problem, even the students thought it was a kind of boring activity. Based on the problem that is explained above, the teacher concludes that the major problem is the teacher did not find yet an appropriate teaching strategy to solve that problem. The third discussion is related to the teaching strategies that the teacher used to solve the students’ difficulties in understanding the grammar rules. It was found when the teacher has tried many methods to teach passive form of Present Continuous Tense and then the teacher get appropriate method to teach it. The teacher said that he ever had gotten problem when he thought the students without using method certainly, in the fact, only some students who gained high score. At last, the teacher suggest to the writer to use pattern drill in assisting students’ difficulties in grammar rules. It is compatible with kind of passive voice such as passive form of Present Continuous Tense. 37

2. The Result of Pre Observation