69 In the second meeting of the first cycle, in April 24, 2014, the teacher
reviewed again the material that they had learned in the previous meeting. After that the teacher asked some of the groups to come in front and read the story to
the whole class. The other groups listened and gave comments to the story that they had made. Besides, the teacher also gave feedback on
the students’ writing. The teacher showed the wrong sentences including using simple past tense and
grammatical error. The teacher showed the errors on the power point slide and asked the students to analyze the errors. The teacher asked to the volunteers to
revise the wrong sentence and wrote it on the board. Some of the students came in front and wrote the revisions. The teacher and the students discussed the right
answer together and asked them to improve their writing based on the feedback that the teacher had given. The students worked with their group to improve their
writing until the end of the lesson. Then, the teacher asked the group to submit the result of the improvement and distributed the questionnaires to the students. The
students were asked to give opinion toward the teaching learning process from the first meeting until the second meeting by filling questionnaires. After that, the
teacher closed the lesson.
4.2.3 Observation
While conducting the action, the researcher also conducting the observation
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. The observation was conducted at the same time of the action Kemmis McTaggart, 1988. The researcher employed
two observers in the observation. They sat at the back of the classroom and used observation checklists to observe the students during the teaching learning
70 activity. Their task was giving
thick √ to represent the evaluation on the
students’ activities.
Based on observation checklists, there were some elements that the observers had to observe. First, the observers
observed the students’ interest toward the lesson. The
activities which showed students’ interest such as students entered the classroom on time, students were ready for the lesson, students had the
background knowledge of the material, and students gave respond when the teacher asked the questions. Besides, the observers also evaluated
on the students’ effort. The activities such as students completed the sentences together based on
the picture which had been shown on power point presentation and students sat in the group and arranged the picture series about
“
Malin Kundang
” and “
Three Little Pigs
”. Another element that the observers observed was students’ persistence. The activities which represented
the students’ persistence were each of group wrote narrative story based on the pictures series that they had arranged.
The students worked in group from the beginning until the end, until the groups finished writing narrative. After that, the students presented the story in front of
the class, and the students revised their writing. The last element that the observers had to observe was how pictures series were implemented in the class.
The observers evaluated the pictures such as the colors, size, and also the story in the pictures.
In addition, the observers also observed the teacher activities. There were some elements which represented teacher
’s activities. They were teacher’s behavior at the beginning of the class such as greeted the students, checked the
71 students’ readiness, and gave clear instructions. Besides, the observers evaluated
on the teaching activities during the learning process. It was shown when the teacher moved around to each group, checked the pictures arrangement, and gave
feedback to the students. Those were the observation elements in the first cycle.
4.2.3.1 Observation Analysis
Based on the observation that had been conducted, the researcher analyzed the observation result
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. Firstly, the researcher analyzed the result that the two observers had done from the first group, it was
about students’ interest. As a result from the two observers, it showed that in the beginning of the lesson not all the students entered the class on time. For the
second statement, the result showed that the students also were not ready for the lesson. The third statement showed that the students had background knowledge
of the narrative material. The last statement, illustrated that students gave responses when the teacher asked questions. In conclusion, from the four
statements in the first group the observers gave 2 positive results.
Secondly, the researcher analyzed the students’ effort. As a result, two
observers showed that the students completed the story based on the pictures which were shown on the slide. Furthermore, all students sat in their group and
arranged the pictures series about
Malin Kundang
and
Three Little Pigs
. As a result, two observers showed two positive results.
Thirdly, the researcher analyzed the stu dents’ persistence. There were 4
statements which indicated students’ persistence. Based on the observers’ results,
