The Result of Pre- Observation
Based on the result of pre questionnaire before the implementation of CAR, the writer would like to give some explanations. The pre questionnaire was
administered on January 26
th
, 2011. Referring to the result of the data, generally it was found that students still have low motivation in learning verb I present tense
and verb II past tense forms and most of them still have difficulties in using verb I present tense and verb II past tense meaningfully.
The result on the questionnaire revealed that from the first statement 67.7 24 students did not feel satisfied with their English score and only 33.3 12
students who feel satisfied. To statement number 2, only 22.2 8 students like to learn English grammar and 77.8 did not like to learn English grammar.
Relating to the statement number 3, 83.3 30 students said that they didn’t feel motivated in learning simple present and simple past tense, it means that only 16.7
6 students who feel motivated of the material. For the statement number 4, only 19.4 7 students can understand the simple present and simple past tense
easily and 80.6 29 students are hardly to understand. Then, for the statement number 5, 72.2 26 students have difficulty in using different verb in the
simple present and simple past tense and only 27.8 10 students didn’t have difficulty. Next, for the statement number 6, it showed that only 22.2 8
students could remember the formula of present and past tense. The responses for the next statement, number 7, showed that 22.2 8 students could do the
exercise was given by the teacher about present and past tense. To the statement number 9 showed that 88.9 32 students do the English exercise in group. The
responses to the last statement, number 10, showed that only 5.6 2 students use present and past in their life.
Regarding to the result above, it can be concluded that students’ ability and students’ motivation in learning English grammar especially the present and
past tense is still low and there was a need for the researcher to implement Transformation drill in order to improve students’ ability and motivation.