Applying Photographs Based Activities Giving rewards to the active students.
writing product. The use of creativity
had been involved by students in generating
ideas and writing them to be their own
texts.
Some of students still faced difficulties to
generate ideas using the photographs,
sometimes they forgot and did not know
some adjectives and nouns that could be
used as their ideas written.
Students seemed still had low confidence
and some of them were still not
independent.
2. Giving
rewards to the active
students Giving rewards to the
active students individually and
groups in the form of direct mark was
successful to make students competed to
be the best in class.
They also seemed to start involving group
discussion actively and giving motivation
each other.
However there were found some students
were inactive in group discussion sessions.
This action would be
sustained in cycle II with
improvement The actions should be
continued in the next cycle.
Then, there were some various
techniques applied to make students more
active in group discussion session and
competed to the other groups for example
doing game activity that required students
to win and to get the rewards in the form of
prizes.
3. Giving
more feedback
written and oral to
Giving more feedback written and oral to
the students related to
their writing performance could
This action would be
sustained in cycle II with
improvement The actions should be
continued in the next cycle
There were some
the students
related to their
writing performan
ce. help the students
learning more on how to construct the
sentence through consulting their first
draft one by one.
The consultations
sessions could make students more aware
about their writing mechanism including
the use of punctuation and capitalization.
However,
the students were still confused
about how to construct their
sentences.
Many of them still asked about how to
construct present tense pattern and how
to express something in English.
Some students were still unaware in
punctuation, capitalization and
spelling.
It seemed they did not use the given
feedbacks maximally to revise
additional consultation sessions out of the
class.