research will allow all the participants to deepen their understanding of the social relatives of the context.
5. Dialogic Validity
This validity is related to the research that requires other participants as a dialogue team to monitor or observe in academic
discussion. The result of the study was monitored by peer review in academic discussion. Peer review in action research would mean
dialogue with practitioner peers On the other hand, to obtain the trustworthiness and to get the
research more reliable, the researcher also used some kind of triangulation. There are mentioned below.
1. Time triangulation
Time triangulation means that the research was conducted in one time period to avoid the changes.
2. Investigator triangulation
Investigator triangulation means that the research involved more than one observer to avoid the bias and to get the research
more reliable.
G. Research Design
This classroom action research was conducted in two cycles as needed. Each cycle consisted of the following steps.
1. Planning of the action
In this phase the researcher identified problems or issues and developed a plan of action in order to bring improvements in a specific
area of the research context. After finding the problem in class VIII E through observation, interview and discussion, the researcher planned
the action to solve the problem. The researcher reviewed some theories of writing and methods in teaching writing. Based on the
considerations above, the researcher chose to use a writing process method
to improve the students’ writing skill. 2.
Implementing of the action Based on the problem selected from the reconnaissance, the
researcher made a plan of action to solve the problem about the lack of writing ability for the class VIII E students of SMP N 15 Yogyakarta.
In this case, the researcher used a writing process method to solve the problem mentioned. Before implementing the action, the researcher
conducted the test to measure the students’ ability in writing a recount text. The researcher conducted the research in two cycles consisting of
three meeting for each cycle. In the first cycle and second cycle the researcher applied the writing process method, started from pre-
writing, drafting, sharing, revising, editing, publishing, and assessing. The results of the students’ writing were compared to see the
improvement.
