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7 November 23
rd
, 2007
On November 23
rd
, 2007, the presentation was done only by group 2. It was the last group who presented their texts. Group 10 presented about
Healthy Food Recipe
. Like the presentation before, they presented their texts, their difficulties on words, the meaning of these words and question and answer. Most of the students
were active in this activity. The next action was on November 27
th
, 2007, it was a post test activity.
2. Outside Class Activity
This activity was aimed to help students individually. It was done based on the result in cycle 1 that not all students were active. They only leaned themselves
on their leader. In this case the teacher couldn’t detect development of the student’s ability individually. To solve the problem the teacher gave individual consultation.
The teacher gave them three chances to consult. She gave three chances to the students to know their improvement. The schedule of individual consultationis can
be seen in appendix 24. It was done after they finished their class. Outside-class activity started on November 2
nd
, 2007 until November 26
th
, 2007. It started at 11.00 AM to 16.00 PM.
In the outside-class activity in the second cycle, the teacher serviced the students individually. Because of the various problems faced by the students, the
teacher had to find different ways in solving the problems, so there were many ways to solve these problems. Most of their problems were about vocabulary. The others
were comprehending texts and grammatical problem. To solve the vocabulary problem, the teacher gave some techniques how to learn vocabulary. It was the first
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their real problem. The situation of the first meeting was not comfortable. They also felt afraid, they didn’t have confidence to join the individual consultation. It was the
duty of the teacher to make them enjoy learning English individually. To make them enjoy the activities, there were many ways done by the teacher by making the
situation more relax, making a joke to them, asking the students what their problems were. This was aimed to make them tell frankly about their problems. From the
result of the first meeting the teacher could decide the suitable treatment for them. The treatment for each student was different because they had the different
problems. To solve the vocabulary problem, in the first meeting the teacher asked
herhim to mention some words in English in five minutes. She noted how many words shehe could mention. Then she asked them to identify the parts of speech of
each word they mentioned. After knowing how many words her students had, she asked himher to find the difficult words from hisher own text. She asked himher
to underline the difficult words and guide them to identify the part of speech. Because of the individual guiding, the student could study intensively.
For grammatical problems the teacher explained patterns of grammar that were found in the texts and gave them some exercise of grammar. If they didn’t
understand well she explained it again. After that the teacher asked the students to write sentence by sentence from their own texts. After all sentences from their own
texts had been written she asked the student to analyze the sentence. First she asked
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discussed about the meaning of the sentence. For comprehending problem, there were two problems which were faced by
the students. First problem they couldn’t find the general idea of the text quickly when they only read once. They couldn’t understand. They had to read the article or
texts more than once. To comprehend their texts or article usually they had to read at least four times. The second problem was they couldn’t find the specific idea of
the texts. When they got question which was out of the texts but still related to the texts, they faced the difficulty. To solve the problems, the teacher did some
activities. First she explained about how to find the idea. She explained again about the strategy of reading, skimming and scanning. Besides, she explained about six
skills in reading: previewing, asking questions, guessing what new words mean, finding the topic and main idea, understanding pattern in English, and using signal
words. She gave the students a short text, she and she asked the students to read it. After her students read the text, she gave some questions to herhis. Then she asked
the students to identify the new words and guess the meaning of new words. After all the meaning of the new words were found its meaning, she asked the students to
find the topic and main idea, identify the pattern and the signal words.
3. Observation in cycle 2
