CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
A. Type of the Research
This research categorized as action research. Action research design to help a teacher to find out what is happening in his or her classroom, and to use
that information to make the wise decisions for the future. According to Bruns 1999, action research is the application of fact finding to practical problem
solving in a social situation with a view to improve the quality of actions in it by involving the collaboration and corporation of researcher, practitioners and
laymen. She adds that action research is contextual, small-scale and localized. It implies that in doing action research, a researcher identifies and investigates in a
specific situation. The purpose of the action research is to make changes and improvements.
B. Research Design
The research on improving the fourth grade students’ speaking skill through board games at SDN 1 Pandak to improve the student’s speaking skill on
the topics that were taught. It was conducted collaboratively with the English teacher, a collaboration and the students of the fourth grade at SDN 1 Pandak to
improve the student’s speaking skill by formulating the problems in speaking teaching and learning, planning, implementing the actions and reflecting the
actions. Two important factors that could influence the success of the research
were discussion and collaboration among all of the research members. The action research was conducted through the process below.
Figure 2. The cyclical action research model based on Kemmis and Mc Taggart in Bruns 1999
C. Setting of the Research 1. Place of Research
This action research was carried out at SDN 1 Pandak, Bantul that was located in Pandak, Bantul, Yogyakarta. The school had 6 classroom, a
headmaster’s room, a teachers’ room and some supporting facilities, such as a library, a canteen, scout hall, two toilets and a medical room.
2. Schedule of the research
The research was conducted in the second semester in the academic year of 20132014. It was from February to March 2014.
3. Setting
The class target was students of fourth grade at SDN 1 Pandak in the academic year of 20132014. There were 32 students in class 4. The class
consisted of 17 male and 15 female students. They were about 10 to 11 years old. Most of them came from middle economical background.
In SDN 1 Pandak, the English lesson has been taught since the first grade. Based on the observation and interview, however, the speaking skill of the fourth
grade students was still low. They could not communicate well in classroom context. They rarely got speaking practice in the English lessons.
D. Research Members
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