Action Research Cycles Research Settings
utilization of ICT Internet Communication, and technology. In particular, writing activity that is hoped being able to enhance
student‟s interest in writing and more importantly meets student‟s needs. In this planning phase, he did a preliminary study by using
questionnaire to know about student perception toward the
utilization of gadgets, blogs, social networking, computer‟s skill and their needs as well as interest on English learning activity,
particularly writing activity in the classroom. The result of this questionnaire was used by the writer to choose micro-blogging as
a tool for teaching writing.
In the action phase, he tries to consider some deliberate interventions that are brought into teaching situation. In this
phase, he chooses Edmodo as a micro-blogging to be used for teaching writing to the tenth grade students. He first made an
account on Edmodo
http:www.Edmodo.com
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and created some groups on Edmodo followed by giving each class the group
code. The group code is used by the student to sign up on Edmodo and students are grouped based on their class. Still, in
this phase the writer gave the students about the introduction on how to make account on Edmodo.
He gave the students video tutorial and explained them about the potential feature of Edmodo. He explained that Edmodo
will help them with doing group work, and that is easy to communicate using this software. As the first task, he had the
students sign up on Edmodo, greet the classmate, and post their first impression about Edmodo.
While in the observation phase, he tries to observe the effects of the action and documenting the context systematically.
In this phase, he observed the activity the students did with Edmodo. He took a picture of the student‟s activity by using
Edmodo in learning writing. Some pictures about the activity can be seen in the appendix.
And in the reflection phase, he tries to reflect, evaluate and describe the effects to make sure the issue had been explored.
In this phase, he tries to figure out students‟ first perception toward the utilization of Edmodo and seek the problems faced by
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the students during the activity. Evaluate both positive and negative side on student‟s motivation in writing and describe
what have and have not been influenced by Edmodo micro- blogging. Having finished the first cycle, the writer move forward
to the next cycle followed by the same phases for each. To be concluded, there have been three cycles in this present study
conducted with the simply different plan, action, observation, and reflection.
To get a clear description of the teaching and learning process, it needs to be observed the activity, interaction, learning
atmospheres, techniques used and the effect resulted by the utilization of Edmodo micro-blogging in teaching recount and
narrative writing. And with regard to the methodology used in this present study, thus the present study tries not to stand on the
theory to be examined but the writer tries to get himself immersed in the field of study in order to collect data based on
the research questions.
b Specific Plan
With regard to the cycles of action research, in this present study the writer proposed the fourth cycles as follows;