researcher. One of the students said “Apa Miss? Main kartu gitu ya Miss?” “Nggak pernah Miss.” All the students replied. The rules were describing
the cards by giving three clues without gestures. She asked them to exchange the cards to the others pair.
After doing tasks and playing their own vocabulary cards, the students were invited to play game again. The game was almost similar to
previous game but the game should have a bigger amount member of group. The researcher gave the students one set vocabulary cards related to the
procedure text of how to make fried rice. First of all, the researcher had to explain it first. She explained the rules of the game, the feature of the game,
etc. She also invited the students to ask a question if they did not know something related to the rules of the game. After the researcher asked the
students to make groups and put one set of vocabulary cards among the groups.
vignette 3
Group work activities gave many benefits although the class was noisy during the activity. The students were asked to produce words, phrase, and
sentences based on the vocabulary cards they had or picture. They had to speak or pronounce the clues of the vocabulary cards loudly although they made
mispronunciation, misspelling, and they spoke in Javanese-English. They seemed happy and enthusiastic in joining the activity. In this activity, most of the students
were willing to get involved even the students who had a low capability in English.
e. Giving the students for making vocabulary cards
In the first meeting of cycle 1, the students had given some activities or practices. The students were asked to answer some practices. After they had done
their practices, then the students moved to practice which is they had to read a new procedure text of making vocabulary and make their own vocabulary cards
based on the instruction on the procedure text of making vocabulary cards related
to part of speech that they had just discuss in that day; noun and adjective that contained in the procedure text of how to make oriental fried rice. The students
were allowed to use their dictionaries to do this task. The last activity before playing vocabulary cards game was practicing the vocabulary cards that they had
just made, they practiced it in pairs. This task was done orally. It can be seen in the extract of the vignette below.
After that, the researcher gave them a new text, titled making vocabulary cards, and they were asked to read the text appropriately. The
researcher asked the students to find again difficult words that contained on the procedure text of making vocabulary cards and they would discuss the
difficult words together with her using a dictionary.
“Guys, open your dictionary please.” The researcher said. Then a leader of the class, named
Hendra, asked her friends to take vocabulary in library. Then some students went down stairs to borrow some dictionaries from the library. It
took minutes then the researcher used the time while waiting some students to start asking words that the students did not know. After discussing, the
researcher asked the students to apply what the text instructed about, they were asked to make vocabulary cards based on the text instruction on the
procedure text.
After they finished their own vocabulary cards, the researcher asked them to make a group in pairs and gave them rules of playing their
vocabulary cards and they were asked to play their own vocabulary cards with their pair.
“Did you ever learn vocabulary cards game?” Asked the researcher. One of the students said “Apa Miss? Main kartu gitu ya Miss?”
“Nggak pernah Miss.” All the students replied. The rules were describing the cards by giving three clues without gestures. She asked them to
exchange the cards to the others pair.
Vignette 3
In the next meeting or the last meeting in the cycle 1, the students also had some practices before playing vocabulary cards game. The practices were the
same with the previous meeting, they were asked to make the student’s
vocabulary cards and practicing it. The way was the same with the procedure text of making vocabulary cards in the previous meeting. At that day the student were
