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mean score was higher than the ideal mean. It means that the students have a good achievement.
Standard deviation aims to identify whether a distribution is heterogeneous or homogeneous. It was used to measure the variability. If it
was lower than ideal standard deviation, it means that the class was homogeneous and their achievement was equivalent.
The last is T-test. It is to compare two means. Those means will be taken from the pretest and posttest. T-test was used to see whether the
improvement was significant or not. The results of the test were compared in each cycle to see the improvements. The researcher employed SPSS 17,0
to analyze the quantitative data.
E. Procedure of The Research
Before doing some stages in classroom action research, the researcher did reconnaissance step to know about the problem that the researcher and the
students faced in writing class. The researcher did an observation when the teacher taught writing to her students and observed their writing. After having
found the problems, the researcher did some stages based on the classroom action research. Kemmis and Mc Taggart 1998 in Burns 2010:07 have
developed a simple model of cyclical nature of the typical action research process Figure 1. Each cycle has four steps: planning, acting, observing, and
reflecting.
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1. Planning
At this stage, the researcher identified the problems or issues and developed a plan of actions in order to make improvement in students’ writing
skill and teaching writing to the students. The researcher and the English teacher made some scenarios of the teaching and learning process as well as
immediate strategies to deal with classroom disturbance.
2. Acting
In this phase the researcher implemented the use of picture-cued to teach writing for a certain period of time. She was critical in doing the research
and planned new alternative ways of making improvement after doing the actions.
3. Observing
Observation was done by the researcher and English teacher in the class or during the teaching learning process. Based on the observation, they
discussed the implementation of the actions. It was done in order to know whether the actions improve the students writing ability or not.
4. Reflecting
After the action was done, the researcher and English teacher discussed the implementation of picture-cued activities based on the result of
the data collection instruments. If the result same with the target, the implementation of picture-cued activities is successful, if it is not, the next
cycle must be continued.
