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text. The students had to choose the correct answers. The students took fifteen minutes to finish the test. Some of them found difficulty in filling the blank parts.
When they did not know the answers, they only chose the answers randomly. After doing the test, the students had to gather with their group-mates to do the
main activity. In the main activity, the students were asked to make mind mapping. In groups, the student
s were asked to develop the word “Public Places”. The students had to mention all words which had correlation with Public Places.
The students were very enthusiastic. They could cooperate with their group-mates and they also wanted to work hard to find as many words as they could. The result
of the main activity was most of the students made mistakes in spelling the words and translating the Indonesian words into English see Appendix 5.
The last activity was a test. In the post-implementation test, the students were given an exercise in the form of guessing the English words based on the
meanings which were provided. The students took the test seriously and they did it individually. The students were given fifteen minutes to do the test.
3. Observing in the Third Cycle
The students ’ pre-implementation test scores showed that there were five
students who did not pass the passing grade of English subject see Appendix 15. There were thirteen students who made mistakes in the pre-implementation test.
Nine of those students made mistake because they did not know the meaning of the options which were provided. Thus, they chose the answers randomly. There
were four students who made mistakes in spelling the words. Three of them did
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singular ones. One of the students made mistake in spelling a word. The result
of the students’ post-implementation test scores showed that all of the students could pass the passing grade of the English subject see Appendix
15. There were four students who made mistake. Three of them made mistake in spelling the words. One of those students made mistake in answering the blank
part. The pre-implementation test and post-implementation test in the last cycle
showed that the students’ score increased see Appendix 16. There were thirteen students whose scores increased, there were nineteen students whose scores were
steady and there were only two students whose scores decreased. In the pre- implementation test, the number of the students who could pass the passing grade
of English subject was twenty nine students and in the post-implementation test all of the students could pass the passing grade of the English subject.
4. Reflecting in the Third Cycle
In this step the researcher found that the students’ scores got better than their previous tests’ scores. In each meeting, their cooperation in group also got better.
From the researcher’s observation, they wanted to help their group-mates, they wanted to find out the answers of the exercises which were given, they were
motivated to learn more, and they also knew their roles in their groups.
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D. Analyzing the Students’ Changes in Each Cycle Through Five Criteria of
