2. Acting
This section discusses the steps and activities that are taken by the researcher. The researcher tried to take how many students abilities to understand
in writing a recount text was, gave students actions to remember every word in spelling and writing, gave students assignments in individual, evaluated their
mistakes and summarized the materials. 3.
Observing In this step, a researcher has to observe all events or activities during the
research. The researcher observed the situation in class during the lesson, response and attitude of students when they were given explanation, doing task,
and knowing their difficulties. 4.
Reflecting Reflecting is the inspecting effort on the success or failure in reaching the
temporary purposes in order to determine the alternative steps that are probably made to gate the final goals of the research.
B. The Setting and Subject of the Research
This study was conducted at SMPN 3 Pakem which is located in Pojok, Harjobinangun, Pakem, Sleman. This school consists of nine classes in which
there are three classes for every grade. This school has many facilities such as library, science library, computer library and language laboratory. The subjects of
the research were the students of grade VIII.
The researcher chose this school as the subject in conducting her research based on several considerations. First, the researcher already knows this school
and the characteristics of the students because she has ever taught the students. Second, the researcher found that many students were not eager to write English
texts. They did not like writing because they had difficulties to find and develop ideas into written texts in a good chronological order.
This research was conducted based on the school academic of 20132014 including the preparation, planning, actions, observations, reflection and reporting
of the results. The time and the schedule of the implementation of the actions are presented below.
Table 2: The Schedule of the Research
No Step
Month September
October November
I II
III IV I II
III IV I II
III IV 1
Observation 2
Planning 3
Action 1 4
Planning for Cycle 2
5 Action 2
6 Analyzing data
and reporting
C. Instruments of Data Collection
The instruments of this research are presented as the following: 1.
Observation Checklists Observation checklists gave the information about the effectiveness of
using picture series to teach writing recount texts. The English teacher checked
some aspects in teaching and learning process such as the lesson plan, the tasks, the materials and the media by putting a tick to statements in the observation
checklists. 2.
Interview Guidelines The interview guidelines were used to guide the researcher to get
responses from the teacher and the students on the use of picture series when she conducted interviews. In this research, the researcher interviewed the students and
the English teacher before, during and after implementing the actions to see their improvements on writing.
3. Tests
Tests were used to get information about students’ writing performance. The researcher held pre-test and post-test to see whether there was improvement
on the students’ writing or not.
D. Data Analysis Techniques
