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P = the percentage f = frequency of the percentage is being calculated
N = number of students Based on the result of the pre questionnaire above, here the writer
would like to give the explanation. Generally, from the table above it could be seen that some of students have a difficulty in learning degrees of
comparison of adjectives. It showed that 9 students 32 students understand degree of comparison of adjectives easily, 22 students 79
students have the difficulty in using degree of comparison of adjectives.
d. The Result of Pre-test
The pretest was conducted on Monday, March 12
th
2012. In pretest, the students assigned to answer the question based on multiple
choices. The test consisted of 25 questions in multiple choice and the students have done for 30 minute. Based on the result of the pretest, the
data showed that mean score of pretest was 50.71. There were only five students or 17.85 of the students who passed the minimum mastery
criterion-kriteria ketuntasan minimal KKM meanwhile the other 23 students did not pass that criterion. The lowest achievement gained score
40. From that analyzing, it could be seen that almost of VIII
H
class students ‘comprehension degrees of comparison of adjectives was still
very low.
2. Finding of Cycle I
a. Planning
In this phase, the writer and the teacher made planning for the action based upon the problem faced by students toward grammar skill. In
this case, the writer determined selected material and exercise to students. Moreover, the writer chooses degrees of comparison of adjectives as the
material. In lesson plan, he prepared some word of adjective. Besides that,
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the writer also prepared the research instruments, such as the question of posttest 1, and observation sheet of learning.
b. Acting
The action of the cycle 1 was done on May 7
th
2012. After making lesson plan, the writer as the teacher implemented the teaching learning
process based on it. Next the teacher started to teach the material that will be learned by students, he began to ask students to write. Next, the teacher
explained about characteristic of degrees of comparison of adjectives included the schematic structures and pattern. After explaining, the teacher
gave them some questions based on the material.
c. Observing
In this phase, the real teacher as the observer had a duty to monitor all activities in the classroom. He found many problems in that classroom
likes the students’ active of passive during teaching and learning process, the student’s didn’t hear teacher’s explanation carefully, the teacher
explained too fast, so student didn’t understand about the material.
Furthermore, the observer found some students who actively in answering t
he teacher’s question correctly related to the pattern degrees of comparison of adjectives. After teaching and learning process finished, in
this observing phase was also carried out the posttest 1 exactly on the second action of the first cycle to measure
how well the student’s grammar comprehension of degrees of comparison of adjectives that had been
studied. Based on the result of the posttest I, the data showed that mean score of posttest was 61.57. There were 11 students who passed the
Minimum Mastery Criterion - Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal KKM is 68. Meanwhile, 17 students did not pass that criterion.
d. Reflecting
