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their works and corrected the s tudents‟ drafts at home. The researcher gave
feedback on the student s‟ drafts by giving some comments and corrections at
home. In the next meeting, the researcher asked the students to revise their students‟ drafts which had been given feedback by the researcher and submitted it.
Then, they were asked to write new narrative texts. 3. Observation
The researcher did the observation and the action in the same time. She observed the students in the class especially when they wrote narrative texts. The
researcher was helped by the two observers. They helped the researcher to observe the students and the class situation during the implementation.
4. Reflection In this step, the researcher tried to analyze data. The researcher analyzed
the data by checking the students‟ writing products. The researcher examined their
works one by one. By doing that, the researcher could know the students ‟ errors
especially in simple past tense. After having the results from the stude nts‟ drafts,
the researcher tried to reflect whether the implementation worked well or not. After that, the researcher prepared the next action for the next cycle.
B. Research Setting
The research was conducted in XD class SMAN 1 Depok. The researcher gave a material about narrative texts and asked the students to write narrative
texts. After that the researcher examined and gave feedback in the students‟
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writing products in a form of corrections, comments or suggestion. After that, the students were asked to revise their writing products and wrote new narrative texts.
C. Research Participants
The subjects were the students of XD of SMAN 1 Depok in the 20112012 academic year. There were thirty six students in the class. There were 28 girls and
8 boys in XD class. Some students had difficulties in understanding grammar and writing narrative texts using simple past tense. As mentioned in the research
objective, the researcher intended to improve the tenth grader s‟ grammar accuracy
of simple past tense in narrative writing. Besides, the researcher asked two persons as observers to help the researcher observing the research in the
classroom.
D. Research Instruments
There were five kinds of instruments used in this research. Those instruments were observation sheet, questionnaire, intervie
w, students‟ draft and field note.
1. S tudents‟ draft
This was the main source of the data. The researcher analyzed the data by checking the
students‟ drafts. The researcher examined their works one by one. Besides, the researcher counted the grammatical errors simple past tense errors
from their works. After that the researcher gave feedbac k on the students‟ drafts.
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2. Observation Sheet Observation sheet in this study was assigned to gather some data when the
researcher conducted the implementation. By using observation sheet, the researcher could identify the
students‟ behavior in the class. Besides, the researcher could gather data and explain descriptively and systematically by using
the observation sheet. 3. Field Note
Field note helped the researcher to figure out the detail situation and students‟ behavior during the classroom. The researcher was helped by two
observers who observed the situation in the classroom during the implementation. 4. Questionnaire
The researcher used questionnaire to gather the data. The aim of this instrument was to know
students‟ opinions about the function of feedback. From the questionnaire, the researcher could obtain information whether the feedback
helped the students or not in improving the studen ts‟ grammar accuracy of simple
past tense in narrative writing. The questions were in the form of closed-ended questions and open-ended questions.
5. Interview The researcher took six students randomly to be interviewed. The
researcher asked some questions about the use of feedback. From the interview result, the researcher could obtain the deeper information whether the feedback
helped the students or not in improving the studen ts‟ grammar accuracy of simple
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past tense in narrative writing. The interview was held outside the class after the implementation.
E. Data Gathering Technique
