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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS
A. The Description of Data
1. Findings of the Preliminary Study
a. The Result of Pre Observation.
The purpose of pre-observation is to know the teaching learning process directly before implementing the Classroom Action Research CAR. It was
conducted on Wednesday, March 30
th
2011 at seventh grade of SMPN 6 Depok at 11:20 A.M to 13:10 A.M. there are 42 students in the Class. Based on the pre-
observation it is known that in teaching Simple Present Tense at seventh grade of SMPN 6 Depok academic year 20102011, the teacher tends to be centered during
the teaching and learning process. So it makes the students be passive and was not interesting.
When the teacher teaches grammar, especially in simple present tense, he only gives the rules first and gave examples based on the rules to the students,
after that he asks them to practice it. Then, he asked the students to do the task. Because that, the students had less motivation in learning and made their bored.
b. The Result of Pre Interview.
This interview was conducted on Wednesday 30
th
March 2011, started at 11:00 A.M to 11:20 A.M. in this part the writer asked some questions to the
teacher about English teaching activities, emphasized on grammar skill, the teacher’s problem in teaching learning process, the students’ difficulties in
learning grammar skill, and also his teaching method and technique. Related to the English teaching learning activities, the teacher said that
most of the students did not like English lesson, because they did not know about the vocabularies in English and in grammar they must remember the rule. And
then, the teacher also said that to increase students’ score above the KKM 65 is still hard.
After that, about his problem in teaching learning process and students’ problem in learning process, he told that actually he got many problems. First,
when he taught about the structures to the students, his students were still confused of English structure usage. It was about teaching tenses, such as simple
present, present continuous, and past tense. The main problem is because the students have limited vocabularies.
The last, about the method and technique that he used in teaching English, especially Grammar skill, he told that he still use Grammar Translation Method
and sometimes he used picture and realia to taught other material. After that, he gave the rule to the students, after that he asked them to memorize the rule and did
the task based on the rule that he has been given to them.
c. The Result of Pre Test.
The pre-test was conducted at the beginning of the research, on Friday, 1
st
April 2011. The purpose of this test was to check how far the students’ understanding about the simple present tense. There were 42 students who
followed this test. They had to answer 20 multiple-choice items given by the researcher.
The result of the pre-test can be seen in the following table.
Table 4.1 The Result of Pre Test
Students’ Number Students’ Score
1 55
2 45
3 65
4 60
5 50
6 45
7 60
8 50
9 50
10 70
11 60
12 65
13 55
14 50
15 50
16 65
17 55
18 50
19 70
20 75
21 20
22 50
23 50
24 55
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