40 only focused on choosing the appropriate teaching learning activity which was
used in the classroom. By learning those various words, the students were confused and their scores were not really good. Some of the students complained
about the various words which were given during the classroom. The students said that it was not easy to remember all of those words.
C. Research Findings in the Third Cycle
In order to improve the first and the second cycles which had been done, the researcher conducted the third cycle. The steps in this cycle were the same as the
steps in the first and the second cycles.
1. Planning in the Third Cycle
In this step, the researcher taught about public places. The researcher made the worksheet and handout which were used in the classroom. The researcher asked
about the words which should be learnt by the students. This was done in order to make sure that the words which were taught in the classroom were suitable with
the words which should be learnt by the VII graders. The researcher also conducted an informal interview and made a questionnaire in order to get more
data about the use of Student Teams-Achievement Divisions STAD in the classroom. The interview and the questionnaire were done after the researcher had
done with the three cycles.
2. Acting in the Third Cycle
The third cycle was conducted on May 17
th
, 2014. The class started at 09.00 a.m. The first activity was conducting the test. In the pre-implementation test, the
students were asked to fill in the blank parts. There was a descriptive text about
41 “School” with some blank parts on it. There were ten options provided below the
text. The students had to choose the correct answers. The students took fifteen minutes to finish the test. Some of them found difficulty in filling the blank parts.
When they did not know the answers, they only chose the answers randomly. After doing the test, the students had to gather with their group-mates to do the
main activity. In the main activity, the students were asked to make mind mapping. In groups, the student
s were asked to develop the word “Public Places”. The students had to mention all words which had correlation with Public Places.
The students were very enthusiastic. They could cooperate with their group-mates and they also wanted to work hard to find as many words as they could. The result
of the main activity was most of the students made mistakes in spelling the words and translating the Indonesian words into English see Appendix 5.
The last activity was a test. In the post-implementation test, the students were given an exercise in the form of guessing the English words based on the
meanings which were provided. The students took the test seriously and they did it individually. The students were given fifteen minutes to do the test.
3. Observing in the Third Cycle
