Third Meeting Actions and Observation

students’ interest. They were not enthusiastic on doing the task. After giving tasks, the teacher asked some of the students to come forward and write their results but the rest made some noise and did nothing. The teacher also did not explain how to write narrative texts although they found difficulties. FN.0414-03-2013 Before the researcher implemented the actions, she found that many students had difficulties to organizetheir ideas in a good order. They also had difficulties to use the correct grammar. The following presents the students’ statements about their difficulties to writenarrative texts before conducting the actions. R : Gimana dik tadi nulisnya susah ga?‘How was your writing?’ S1 : Susah miss, bingung mau nulis apa? ‘It was difficult Miss, I did not know what I should write’ R : Susahnya gimana dik? ‘How as it difficult?’ S2 : Iya Miss pake past tensenya ‘Yes Miss using the past tense verbs’ S1 : Ya bikin ceritanya Miss. Gak ada idenya. ‘Yeah the writing the text Miss’ Interview transcript0516-03-2013 In the modelling section in Cycle 1, the comic stripsfacilitated the students to catch the ideas of the text in terms of generic structure, language features and social function. In the writing section, the comic stripshelped them to organize the story in a good chronological order. The teaching strategies in implementingcomic strips not only influenced the organization of the text but also content, vocabulary and language use aspects. The following presents the students’ statements after the first meeting. R : Nah abis latihan simple past tense tadi apakah kalian masih menemukan kesulitan pas menulis text narrative? ‘After you practiced the use of simple past tense, did you still find any difficulties in writing narrative texts?’ S2 : Iya Miss, tapi ga bingung mau nulis apa wong ada gambarnya tapi bingung bahasa inggrisnya, trus masih belum bisa rubah simple past tensenya, tambah –ed atau yang beda kata gitu. ‘Yes Miss, the pictures helped me to write but I still could not change the verbs, adding –ed or different word.’ Interview transcript08 21-03-2013 The students also had improvements on the students’ writing. Their writing was well-organized. They could state the generic structure of the texts coherently. Some students also did not make a lot of errors in vocabulary and language use aspects than they did before implementing the actions.They were also motivated to writenarrative texts. However, they could only produce limited development of the topic. The following field note presents the students’ condition towards the teaching and learning process in the last meeting of Cycle 1. During the writing process, the students did not find difficulties to organize their writing and to transform their ideas. They could produce a narrative text which consists of orientation, complication and resolution in well- organized. The students were challenged to write a text from the comic strips. However, they only wrote a sentence for each picture. They did not add some supporting sentences representing each picture. During the writing process, the students asked about the vocabularies. They also asked about the use of simple past tense. The students looked very enthusiastic onthe writing process. FN.1228-03-2013 After implementing the comic strips, the students have been motivated to writenarrative texts. They were more enthusiastic on the learning process. They seemed attracted and began to pay attention to the researcher’s explanation. They even showed their eagerness to answer the researcher’s questions. They could easily find ideas that they wanted to write in their texts by observing the comic strips. These could be observed from their results of writing and the interview which was held by the researcher. R : Gimana tadi menyenangkan ga nulisnya?‘How was the lesson, did you enjoy it?’ S1 : Seru Miss,bisa bikin kalimat tapi pasti tetep banyak yang salah,hehe ‘its fun Miss, I could write it but I was afraid of making a lot of mistakes’ R : Emm gak papa, oh iya comic stripsnya bantu kalian buat nulis ga? ‘It’s okay, did the comic strips help you in writing?’ SS : Iya Miss ‘Yes Miss’ R : Gimana bantunya? ‘How it could help you?’ S1 : Ya jadi ada idenya. Kan ada gambarnya, jadi tinggal bikin kata- katanya.‘Yes, there is the idea. There is a comic strips, so it only need transfer the ideainto words’ R : Menarik ga gambarnya? ‘Did the comic strips interesting for you?’ S2 : Iya Miss menarik Miss ‘Yes Miss, the pictures were attractive’ Interview transcript.0923-03-2013 To see the results of the students’ writings, the samples of the student’s improvementswere taken randomly presented below.