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B. The Improvement of the Students’ Ability to Construct Simple Sentences
In this part, the researcher would like to present the improvement of the students’ ability to construct simple sentences using jumbled words into two parts.
The first part is the main result of the students’ improvement in constructing simple sentences and the second part is the supporting result of the students’
improvement.
1. The Main Result of the Students’ Improvement
In this part, the researcher would present the result of the preliminary study, cycle 1, and cycle 2 which showed the improvement that had been achieved
when the use of jumbled words was implemented in the class. The result would be the answer of the research problem which was
whether jumbled words improved the students’ ability in constructing simple sentences or not. The result was satisfying since the use of jumbled words could
improve the students of SMA Santo Mikael Sleman’s ability to construct simple sentences. It could be seen from table 4.4.
From the data, there were eight students who had improved their quality of simple sentences they constructed while there were three students from 11
students who failed as their improvement was not consistent. Hence, it could be concluded that more than half of the students had improved their ability to
construct simple sentences.
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Table 4.4: Improvement of the Students’ Ability to Construct Simple Sentences
.
No. Name of
the Student
Errors in students’
writings preliminary
study Errors in
students’ writings
cycle 1 Errors in
students’ writings
cycle 2 Note
1. Albania
100 5
failed
2. Angola
58.33 22.22
5 succeeded
3. Bolivia
Absent Moving to
other school Moving to
other school -
4. Brazil
66.67 18.18
succeeded
5. Canada
37.5 33.33
5.56 succeeded
6. Denmark
100 7.14
succeeded
7. England
64.29 35
succeeded
8. Finland
Absent Moving to
other school Moving to
other school -
9. France
28.57 35.71
failed
10. Japan Absent
5
succeeded
11. Oman 37.5
10 failed
12. Romania 50
Preparing for competition
Joining competition
- 13. Russia
Absent Preparing for
competition Joining
competition -
14. Venezuela Moving to
other school Moving to
other school -
15. Vietnam 85.71
14.29 succeeded
16. Wales 100
40 5
succeeded
Average percentage:
58.33 percentage:
18.52 percentage:
6.02 Decreased
70 The result could also be summarized in the chart to see the significant
reduction of the average of error percentage in the students’ writings from the preliminary study to cycle 2.
Figure 4.1 the Average of Error Percentage in the Students’ Writings
In the preliminary study, the result was really poor. Most of the students wrote sentences without a subject and a finite verb in the complete sentence. From
the data, the error percentage average was 58.33. It meant there were only 41.67 of the correct simple sentences the students had constructed.
In the first cycle, the average of error percentage in the students’ writings decreased. It decreased significantly seeing as the error percentage reduced from
58.33 to 18.52. It could be seen that most of them were able to construct simple sentences correctly. They had understood what a sentence meant.
10 20
30 40
50 60
70
Students error percentages of
simple sentences
71 In the second cycle, the result was satisfying. The average of error
percentage was 6.02. The average of the correct sentences was 93.98. Most of the students had constructed simple sentences correctly.
The average of error percentage in the preliminary study, first cycle and second cycle were 58.33, 18.52, and 6.02. From the data, there was significant
reduction from the preliminary study to cycle 2. It could be concluded that the average of error percentage in students’ writings decreased significantly.
2. The Supporting Results of the Students’ Improvement
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