has quite large room. It is also equipped with LCD. The research setting was at the class of eighth grade which has 32 students.
The school has two language laboratories which are facilitated with tape recorder, speaker, earphone, TV, and AC. The school has a laboratory with
many of English books and dictionaries to support the English teaching learning process. There are also English wall magazine to help students developing their
skill in English. The classroom condition is good and supports the English teaching learning process. The school also has potential teachers. They always
try to improve their knowledge and encourage their students to get their best.
C. Research Subjects
The data were taken from the grade VIII students at SMP N 1 Mungkid, Magelang in the academic year of 2014-2015. The researcher only used a group
of students from the VIII C class. The class has 32 students who would be the research participants. They were chosen based on the consideration from the
English teacher.
D. Research design
There are two cycles of the research with evaluation on the end of each cycle. On the first cycle, the plan will be discussed with all the members of the
research on a certain period of time will be implemented in the class. In the end of the period that will be determined, reflection and evaluation of the program
are done. From the evaluation, the weaknesses and problems occurred of the first plan are noted.
The research conducted was based on Kemmis and McTaggart model as cited in Burns 2010: 7-9. The steps of the research were planning, action,
observing and reflecting. It can be seen in the following picture:
Figure 2 :
Kemmis and McTaggart’s 1988 action research spiral
The first step of the research is planning. In this step the researcher identifies and analyzed the theme of the research. The researcher interprets the
research data. The researcher uses the classroom data, the individual data, or the subgroup data that are gathered before.
The second step of the research is action. The researcher implemented what had been planned before. The purpose of this step is to solve the problem
which is the students’ low writing ability of narrative texts. Observation is the third step that the researcher did in this research. The
researcher records all activities that have been done before. The researcher tried
