The Research Process of Classroom Action Research

66 narrative as the material. The researcher designed lesson plan accordance to the basic competence and standard competence for Senior High School grade XI in curriculum 2006 KTSP . The topic was narrative, included writing as the skill and the time allotment was 90 minutes. The main step in making lesson plan was deciding the basic competence and the standard competence. The Department of Education had designed the basic competence and standard competences for English subject at eleventh grader. The standard competence was expressing the meaning of essay text in the form of report, narrative and analytical exposition in the context of daily life. The basic competence was expressing the meaning and rhetoric steps in the simple essay text using written language accurately, fluency, and acceptable in the context of daily life in the form of report, narrative and analytical exposition. After deciding the standard competence and basic competence, the researcher determined the indicators. The indicators were divided into cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. In the cognitive aspects, the students were able to recognize narrative text, identified the language features, and the generic structure of narrative. The affective aspects, the students were able to work together in a group. In the psychomotor aspects the students were able to arrange the picture series into a good order, and they were able to write narrative story using correct simple past tense and sentence structure. Based on the indicators, the researcher determined the goal of the learning. After found out the goal of the learning, the students chose the learning material. 67 The topic was narrative so the researcher selected the material from English book for Senior High School students XI Sudarwati Grace , 2007 Besides, the researcher determined the picture series that would be used. The topic of the pictures was accordance to the type of narrative. The researcher used a fable entitled Three little pigs and a legend entitled Malin Kundang . After that, the researcher decided the teaching method. As a method, the researcher implemented cooperative learning method. This method emphasized the students to work together. In this method, each student in the group would be motivated to help each other to achieve the goal Huda, 2012. The next was determined the teaching activity. The teaching learning activities were divided into three parts. They were pre activity, whilst activity, and post activity.

4.2.2 Action

The action was divided into two meetings. The first meeting was conducted in April 22, 2014 and the second meeting was conducted in April 24, 2014. Each meeting consisted of ninety minutes. In this action the researcher played a role as an English teacher. While conducting the action, the observers observed the class situation. Two observers sat at the back row and observed the class based on the observation checklists. In the first meeting, the teacher began the English class at 08.45. The teacher explained the students about what they were going to learn at that day. Then, the teacher checked the stud ents’ understanding about narrative by asking some questions related to narrative text. After that, the teacher explained about narrative to the students by showing power point presentation. The content of the 68 presentation were the meaning of narrative, the purpose of narrative, the language features of narrative, and the example of narrative stories. In this stage, the researcher focused on the language features of narrative because it was very studied about narrative, the researcher showed pictures on the power point presentation. The story entitled The Monkey and the Crocodile. In addition, below the pictures, there was a blank story. The students were asked to complete the story by choosing the appropriate tenses, time conjunction, chronological connector that had been provided. Then, the teacher and the students discussed the answers together. Having task from completing the blank story and then the teacher asked the students to make a group consisted of 5 students at the minimum and 7 students at the maximum. Each group got an envelope which contained some pictures. The group s’ job was to arrange the pictures series into good order, after that they had to make a narrative story based on the pictures series that they had arranged. There were two kinds of pictures, the first picture was about a fable and the second picture was about a legend. Some of the groups got the story entitled Malin Kundang and some of the groups got the story entitled Three Little Pigs see appendix 6 on page 123 . The students had to work together to make a story, and they had to submit one story for each group. In the end of the lesson, the groups submitted the story to the teacher. Because of limited time, the teacher asked the group to present the story in the next meeting. Before closing the task, the teacher reviewed again the topic that the students learned at that day, the teacher also reminded them to present the story next meeting.