54 conducting the research, the researcher planned to permit the students to find
difficult words in the dictionary. Then the researcher planned to collect the
students’ drafts in the end of the class. Then the researcher planned to give feedback to the students’ drafts and gave it back on Friday, April 12
th
, 2013.
After that, the researcher planned to collect the students’ revised written texts on
Saturday, April 13
th
, 2013. In post activities, the researcher planned to have a question and answer
session. It was to make sure that the students had understood the material. The researcher also planned to give written reflective questions to the students in the
end of this cycle. Reflective questions were aimed to help the students reflect what they had learned.
2. Action
The action was conducted in two meetings. The first meeting was conducted on Friday, April 5
th
, 2013. The second meeting was on Thursday, April 11
th
, 2013. The topic was writing an informal invitation letter. a. First Meeting
1 Pre- Activities In pre activities, the researcher began the class by greeting the students. As
the introduction topic, the students were asked about what they knew about an informal invitation letter. Then the students accepted their call card.
55 2 Whilst Activities
In whilst activities, the class was divided into six groups. The names of the groups were still the same; lion, tiger, ant, dog, cat and dragon. Each group
consisted of four students. There were 24 students who joined the class. Then, the students were asked to play jumbled sentences in their groups. They were asked to
arrange the sentences given into the correct arrangement of an informal invitation letter. The informal invitation letter was a birthday party invitation letter. They
were asked to stick the sentences on the paper prepared. The informal invitation letter was about a birthday party invitation letter. They should have been
cooperative with their group members. The group who had finished should then write their group name on the blackboard. Then, the researcher and students
discussed together the correct arrangement of the informal invitation letter. After that, the students also discussed the questions provided including the elements and
language features of an informal invitation letter. 3 Post Activities
In post activities, the researcher reviewed what the students had learned. The researcher also gave a chance to the students to ask about the materials of the
day. Finally, the researcher ended the meeting of the day.
c. Second Meeting The second meeting was conducted on Thursday, April 11
th
, 2013. There were 24 students who joined the lesson. There were 3 main activities.
56 1 Pre- Activities
In pre activities, the researcher began the class by greeting the students. Then the researcher reviewed the last meeting material. Then, the researcher
distributed the call card.
2 Whilst Activities In whilst activities, the students were asked to play the second game;
jumbled words. In this game, the students were asked to arrange the words into correct sentences in their group. Each student was responsible to arrange the
words into two sentences. The students were asked to stick the arrangement of words that were used in writing an informal invitation letter on the paper
prepared. Then they discussed the arrangement with the members of their group. The tenses of the sentences were simple present tense and simple future tense.
Those tenses were the tenses used in writing an informal invitation letter. They might use their dictionary to find the difficult words. After that, the group who
had finished playing the game should then write
their group’s names on the
blackboard. Then, some volunteers chose the sentences that they were going to write on the blackboard. After all of the sentences had been written, the teacher
and students discussed the sentences one by one. Meanwhile in the discussion, the researcher also explained the tenses which were used in writing an informal
invitation letter; simple present tense and simple future tense because most of them forgot the tenses. The last game was flash pictures game. In this game, the
students were asked to look at the some pictures which were flashed by the
57 teacher. There were three pictures; a house, a graduation cap and a clock
indicating 3 p.m. The teacher flashed the pictures two times. After looking at the pictures, the students wrote a graduation party invitation letter based on the flash
pictures they had seen on the papers which were distributed by the researcher. They had 45 minutes in writing a graduation party invitation letter. They might
look at the dictionary to help them write a graduation party invitation letter. The
teacher was walking around the class to help students and answer students’
questions during the implementation of the three games. Then, the researcher asked the students to submit their drafts at the end of the class. After that, the
researcher gave feedback to their drafts and gave it back to the students on Friday, April 12
th
, 2013. Finally, the students had to submit their revised written texts on Saturday, April 13
th
, 2013. 3 Post Activities
In post activities, the researcher reviewed what the students had learned by asking and answering questions to the students. Then, the researcher distributed
written reflective questions to the students. The researcher also distributed questionnaire to all students of X Accountancy 2. After that, the researcher ended
the meeting of the first cycle.
3. Observation
