The Criteria of the Action Success

39 their participation, and the strategy used by the teacher in writing class and asking about Jigsaw technique. First category discussed about the general condition in English class especially in writing class. The teaching learning process conducted as usual, there were pre activities, while activities and post activities. In writing class, the teacher used some activities like grouping, fill in the blank, arrange the words into a good sentence, and arrange the sentence into a good paragraph and write a short story about their daily activities, and so on. The media used was pictures and text which relevant to the topic. see item numbers 1, 2 and 3 of interview Second category talked about the difficulty faced by the students focus on English skill. The teacher said that writing were the difficult skills to be learned whereas the students must achieve the Minimum Mastery Criterion- Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal KKM . The students’ difficulties in writing lied on generating ideas and organizing into paragraph, choosing the words and using appropriate grammar. Consequently, the students got boredom in writing class and students’ participation in writing class was not too active. see item numbers 4,5, 6, 7 and 8 of interview The last category is about the strategy used by the teacher in writing class and asking about Jigsaw technique. The teacher said that she has never used Jigsaw technique in writing class but she has known about Jigsaw technique. She assumed that Jigsaw could be an effective technique in teaching writing because it could facilitate the learning. It was good to help generate the ideas. So, it might be able to improve students’ ability in writing. See item numbers 9, 10, 11 and 12 of interview. The conclusion of the interview in term of the students’ difficulties in writing was the students’ of English 2 class still have difficulties in writing in term of generating ideas, organizing ideas into paragraph and choosing the words. The detail result of pre interview can be seen in appendix 1b. 40

b. The Result of Pre Questionnaire

The pre questionnaire was conducted to obtain the data indicating students’ motivation in writing activities. The questionnaire was given to the students in the second year of English 2 class on Monday, January 24 th 2010. The questionnaire had ten questions which revealed in five issues: the students’ motivation toward the English lesson especially in writing skill number 1 and 3, the most difficult skill in English lesson number 2 4, the students’ feeling toward the teacher’s style in teaching writing number 5, 6 7, the teacher’s implementation of the suitable technique in teaching writing number 8 9, and the students’ feeling toward their result in English lesson number 10. The table below showed the result of pre questionnaire. Table 4.1 The Result of Pre Questionnaire No Perception Percentage Strongly Agree Agree So-so Disagree Strongly Disagree 1 The students’ motivation toward the English lesson item numbers 1 3 10.0 37.1 41.4 8.6 2 The most difficult skill in English lesson item numbers 2 4 24.3 15.7 27.1 32.8 3 The students’ feeling toward the teacher’s style in teaching writing item numbers 5, 6, 7 7.1 24.8 49.5 13.3 4 The teacher’s implementation of the suitable technique in teaching writing item numbers 8 9 11.4 20.0 47.2 11.4 5 The students’ feeling toward their result in English lesson item number 10 22.9 45.7 11.4 20.0 The first issue in Table 4.1 was on the students’ liking for English lesson. It indicated that 10.0 of students strongly agreed that they like English lesson very much and 37.1 of students like English lesson, 41.4 students felt fair to the English lesson and 8.6 of students did not like English lesson. It can be concluded that most 47.1 of the students of English 2 class like English lesson.