Observation Validity and Reliability

48 No. : FN. 02 Day, Date : Saturday, September 27 th 2014 Time : 08.40 WIB Place : VIII A Classroom R : Researcher ET : English Teacher Ss : Students R and ET entered VIII A Classroom. ET let R sit in the chair in the back of the classroom. At 08.40 the lesson was begun. ET greeted Ss and asked their condition “Good morning, students. How are you?” Ss answered “I’m fine, thank you. And you?” ET also answered “I’m very well.” ET checked the attendance list. All of 35 Ss came at that time. ET started the lesson by showing several examples of imperative sentence through a video that she got from internet. ET played the video by using LCD projector in front of the classroom. All Ss were interested in the video. The video was containing some examples of imperative sentence accompanied by the picture to act out the sentences. ET explained the material. ET pronounced the sentences as the example and asked Ss to repeat after her. All Ss pronounced the sentences but some of them mispronounced the sentences. Then, ET asked Ss to make their own imperative sentence. Some of the Ss seemed reluctant to do the task. Some of them were noisy. At 09.20 the bell rang for taking the first break. Then, the researcher interviewed four students about English teaching and learning process. At 09.40 ET entered the classroom and the lesson was started again. ET asked all of the Ss to write their imperative sentence in the whiteboard. Some of the Ss made wrong sentences. And some other Ss write some words in wrong spelling. ET discussed the sentences with the Ss and corrected the wrong sentences. Then, ET wrote other examples of imperative sentence in the whiteboard. But ET gave some wrong examples, such as “Open the door” and “Don’t open the door” At 10.50 the time was over. ET ended the lesson and asked the Ss to study hard at home. ET almost used Bahasa Indonesia in the whole lesson. ET used English only when she opened and ended the lesson. Ss did not communicate with English at all. After the researcher conducted the observation, the next step was interviewing the English teacher and some students of class VIII A SMP Pembangunan Piyungan. Through the interviews, the researcher got some information and suggestions about the teaching and learning process that could be used to support the identification of the problem and to solve the problems. By interviewing the English teacher and the students the researcher would able to