The Writer’s Role on
2. Acting phase After making the planning, the writer begins to implement it in the classroom
and it is done in two meetings within each cycle. But before implementing the first meeting of cycle 1 he gives the students pretest in order to know their ability in
Degrees of Comparison before he teaches them by using his technique. Afterward, he conducts the activity based on the lesson plan by concerning to the pattern and usage
of Degrees of Comparison. In the second meeting he gives them the posttest in order to know are there any improvements after learning the material based on the writer’s
technique. If the students’ improvement has not reached the criteria yet, he will conduct the next two meetings in cycle 2.
3. Observing phase During teaching learning activity, he asks the English teacher to observe his
performance, the students’ activity, the students’ participation, the students’ attention, the students’ response and the class situation by using structured observation sheet. It
means both observation and teaching learning activity are done at the same time. In this phase the writer also collects the data from the pretest and posttest which are
given to the students.
4. Reflecting phase The last phase of the Classroom Action Research procedures is reflecting and
it is done after conducting the acting phase. In this phase the writer analyzes and evaluates teaching learning process in cycle 1. Furthermore, he analyzes the
observation data and reflects his teaching experiences during teaching learning activity; and it is done collaboratively with the English teacher. Besides, he also
analyzes the students’ score of pre-test and post-test based on the successful criteria of the Classroom Action Research in order to know whether using Substitution Drills
in learning Degrees of Comparison can improve students’ ability and achievement or not.
However, if there are still found any problems, the writer will move to the
next cycle regarding re-planning, re-acting, re-observing
and reflecting. Consequently, the writer and the English teacher should work out uncompleted
problems that have been solved yet.