guidance to interview the participants. However, there might be any possible questions and unpredictable questions that would occur to
find out more information from the participants. 3
Testing pre-test and post-test results to know the improvement of students’ ability in writing narrative texts.
4 Documentation in the form of photographs and videos during the
teaching learning process when the research was conducted. In addition, recordings could be used to record the interview with the
students to know their opinion and their impression about the use of short English animated stories in teaching learning process, especially
in wiriting narrative texts.
3. Data Collection Instruments
In this classroom action research, the researcher was the main instrument. Besides, the researcher used other instruments to run this
research. The instruments were used as the means to get the data. The table below will show the instruments and the data obtained.
Table 4. Instruments of the Research No.
Instruments Data
1 Observation checklist for the
teacher and students Field notes, response sheets
2 Interview guidelines
Interview transcripts, interview records
3 Scoring Rubric for the pre-test
and the post-test Test scores
4 Camera
Photographs
4. Data Collecting Procedure
In order to get data, the researcher conducted observation together with her collegemate as her collaborator in the class. The
observation focused on how the writing course was conducted in the class and what method was used by the teacher in the teaching learning process.
The researcher found the data of the students’ writing ability before the
research was conducted, which in the form of pre-test in writing. Then, the data were
compared to the result of the students’ achievements on writing after the research was conducted. Besides, the researcher also tried to find
the data about the students’ opinion and impression on the method used by the researcher in the English teaching and learning process. The data were
obtained through a questionnaire and an interview. During the research, the researcher made field notes in order to control and to monitor the
process of the research. It helped the researcher in capturing some problems occuring during the research. In order to make the data valid, the
researcher did triangulation with other research members by comparing the data from the observation and questionnaire from the other research
members.
5. Data Analysis Technique
In analyzing the qualitative data, the researcher did some steps proposed by Burns 2010: 104-105. The first step was assembling the
