Research Validity Trustworthiness of the Data

asked students to change the verbs into the correct ones. Writing might take a long time to students so that the teacher rarely carried out tasks that are focused on the writing-for-writing. b Planning After the researcher identified the problems, she made plansto choose the actions that could be conducted in the field. In planning the actions, the researcher worked together with the English teacher of XI IPS 1. The researcher and the English teacher discussed the possibility and the scale of priorities of the implementation. In this step, some techniques were selected to improve students’ writing ability. c Actions and Observing the Action After the planning had been approved, the actions were going to be implemented in the class. The action was going to be done in two cycles. One cycle consisted of three meetings. The researcher observed and recorded the students’ responses in the actions. The researcher discussed the influences of the implementation to be evaluated in the next cycle. The results of the identification were considered successful or unsuccessful. The results of this evaluation process were considered for the reflection in the next step. d Reflection The reflection was going to be done after one cycle of the research completed. The researcher and the English teacher discussed circumstances concerning the actions. It was going to be done to discover whether the actions were successful or not. If the action carried out was successful, the researcher would keep carrying out. In the other hand, if the actions were not successful, the researcher tried to figure out suitable actions to help students improve their writing ability. 47

CHAPTER IV THE RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS

This chapter presents the process of the research findings and discussions which refer to the effort to improve students’ writing ability through cooperative learning. These are presented in three headings: reconnaissance, the implementation of the actions and discussions, and the results of pre-test and post-test of students’ writing results. A. Reconnaissance In this step, some activities to find the existing problems in the class were carried out. First, some observations concerning the English teaching and learning process of class XI IPS 1 at SMAN 1 Seyegan were conducted. Second, the English teacher and students were interviewed to get some input about the weaknesses and suggestions related to the English teaching and learning process. Third, to support the general finding of the students’ writing ability and planning the action, the pre-test was also carried out.

1. Identification of the problems

The identification of the problems was based on the observation, results of interviews and the pre-test of the students. The researcher did the observations during the teaching and learning process in the XI IPS 1 class