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characteristic of action research is the join reflection about the relationship in particular circumstances between process and product.”
2.15 Aim of Conducting Action Research
Now days, the new information, knowledge, and technology in Indonesia education world grow very fast. It causes the demand of educational service,
which must be done by the teachers to improve. Teachers have to solve the problems they face properly. To solve the problems they should not use trial and
error methods anymore. They should use an appropriate method such as action research. Elliot 1998: 49 said that, “the fundamental aim of action research is to
improve practice rather than to produce knowledge.”
2.16 Benefits of Conducting Action Research
The action research is good method that can be used in teaching learning process. There are many benefits of conducting action research.
The benefits of conducting action research are: 1
Improving the teachers’ self confident because they have mi\ore knowledge experience to solve problem.
2 Helping the teachers to understand the essence of education empirically
not theoretically. 3
Developing curriculum. 4
More effective when we compare with other training, and 5
Improve the research tradition among teachers. Elliot, 1998: 52
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2.17 The Steps in Action Research
The steps in an action research indicate to discuss the ways to conduct the action research. Strickland an Allwright and Bailey 1991: 44 state that the
steps in action research are: 1
Identifying an issue, interest or problem 2
Seek knowledge 3
Plan and action 4
Implementing the action 5
Observe the action 6
Reflect on your observation 7
Revise the plan. According to Elliot 1998: 72-76, the activities in action research are:
1 Identifying and classifying the general idea
2 Reconnaissance
The activity can be sub divided into: a
describing the facts of the situation b
explaining the facts of the situation 3
Constructing the general plan 4
Developing the next action steps 5
Implementing the next action steps
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CHAPTER III METHOD OF INVESTIGATION
This chapter deals with subject of the study, instrument of the study, method of analyzing data, scoring technique, classifying the scores, criterion of assessment,
research design, identification of problem, assumption, cycles, pre-test, and post- test.
3.1 Subject of the Study
The writer held a classroom action research at MTs N Brangsong Kendal in the academic year of 20082009. It is located at Jln. Soekarno-Hatta Brangsong
Kendal. There were eight classes on the average each class has 34 students. Moreover, they are chosen as the subject of the study based on two reasons, they
are: 1
The students are all in the same grade. 2
The students had been studying English for some period of time, so those eight classes are considered parallel.
Gay 1987: 98 states that study needs 30 students for each group as a sample can already represent for the whole population of the study. I chose one
class of the students from the whole class as sample in this study. The class was the E class of the eighth grade students. The class consisted of 13 boys and 21
girls.
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3.2 Instruments of the Study
