33 their friend, and their friend should give their text feedback. After that, the text
was revised by the writer and they had to collect it right after. Then, the texts were corrected again by the teacher. If there was any
mistake, the teacher gave them another feedback. The next meeting, the teacher gave the text back to the students and asked them to revise their text again. Lastly,
the text was submitted to the teacher as a final-draft. By using this method, students could understand writing skills by
analysing others’ product of writing. The students may ask for more explanation and guidance from the teachers. Informal surveys, observations and interviews are
used to determine subject growth and the student’s opinions about the technique. Formal tests are used to make the final conclusion.
B. Research Setting
In this point, there were two sub-points, the place of the research and the schedule of the research.
1. Place of the Research
This research was conducted in SMP N 2 Srandakan in which the researcher did her
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in 2012. In this research, the researcher focused on the second year students as her
subject of the study. This class of VIIIA of SMP N 2 Srandakan was quite crowded. There were some students who had a high interest in learning English.
34 They also had almost the same ability. This school is included in a rural school
which most of the students are from rural area. For some students who like English, they give their all to learn English and ask question when needed, but for
the other students who are not interested in English, they keep silent. So, the researcher wants to make the students who do not like English to like English.
The researcher believes that if the students can understand the nature of English, they will slowly love it.
2. Schedule of the Research
The schedule of the research was based on the academic calendar and it was held in the first semester of the academic year of 20132014. The research
itself was conducted in September until October, following the school schedule of the English lesson. The research took the VIIIA as the subject of the research.
This research was conducted within two months, from the end of September until October. There were five activities did in the research, they were:
pre-test, cycle 1, progress test, cycle 2, and the last was post-test. The first activity the researcher conducted was pre-test. It was done in the
end of September. After that, the researcher did the first cycle from the end of September until the first week of October. The progress-test was also done in the
first week of October. Then, the students of SMP N 2 Srandakan were having a mid-test in the second week of October, followed by
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. The researcher did her research on the second cycle in the end of the third week of
October, and the post-test was done in the end of October.
35 After the researcher finished in taking the data, the researcher then
analysing the data, and reporting it. This activity was done in three months, from November 2013 until January 2014.
C. Data Collection and Analysis
