Table 3: The Field Problems of Teaching and Learning Process in 8 A of SMPN 4 Sleman
No. Problems
Code
1. The students had their own random conversations with their
classmates during the teaching and learning process. S
2. The students had low motivation in learning English.
S 3.
Only few students brought dictionary. S
4. The teacher rarely used English in the classroom
T 5.
The students had problems in writing aspects vocabulary, grammar, mechanics, organization.
S
6. The students did not focus to the lesson.
S 7.
The students were not given enough practice of writing. LA
8. The media used by the teacher did not attract students’
attention to the lesson. TM
9. The students could not finish the writing task on time.
S 10. The students were passive during the lesson.
S 11. The students had a lack of idea to write a text.
S S
: Students T
: Teacher TM
: Teaching Media LA
: Learning Activity
2. Selecting the Problems
Based on the observation, interviews and pre-test that were conducted by the researcher, it could be said that the English teaching and learning process of
writing skill did not run in a good way. So there were some problems which needed to be overcome. After identifying the problems found in the field, the
researcher needed to select the problems that were the most urgent and most feasible to be solved. Considering the feasibility, time and priority of the
problems, the researcher, the collaborator and the English teacher chose the
problems to be solved in this research that focused on raising the idea to write a text as well as improving the writing aspects such as vocabulary, grammar,
mechanics, and organization. And also, they decided to try to improve students’ motivation in learning English, especially in writing skill. The selected
problems are elaborated in the following table.
Table 4: Selected Problems in 8 A of SMPN 4 Sleman No.
Problems Code
1. The students had a lack of idea to write a text. S
2. The students had problems in writing aspects vocabulary, grammar, mechanics, and organization.
S
3. The students had low motivation in learning English. S
4. The students did not focus their attention to the lesson. S
3. Determining the Actions
After identifying the problems found in the teaching and learning process and selecting the most feasible and urgent problems to be solved, the researcher
and the collaborator planned some actions to overcome the problems. The planned actions are listed in the table below.
Table 5: Selected Problems and the Actions No.
Problems Actions
1. The students had lack of idea
to write a text. Implementing
mind mapping
technique to raise the ideas of the students in writing a text.
2. The students had problems in
writing aspects vocabulary, grammar,
mechanics, and
Giving sufficient explanations and practices related to writing a recount
text. It embodied explaining the continued
organization. language
feature of
the text,
introducing the new vocabularies, giving
example of
appropriate spelling and punctuation in writing
and giving feedback to students writing.
3. The
students had
low motivation
in learning
English. Providing the students chance to
write using
mind mapping
technique. Since mind maps had colorful and visual image, it could
maintain the motivation of the students in learning writing skill.
And also, giving positive feedback to the students.
4. The students did not focus
their attention to the lesson. Using visual media like Power Point
to present the materials to attract students’ attention to the lesson.
B. The Implementation of the Action
