teaching and
learning activity during the English
class. writing
learning process.
5. The teacher did not create
interesting writing activities.
The teacher only focused on the materials from the
copy of main course book. She did not try to make the
students interested with the lesson.
6. The teacher did not use any interesting
media to
engage students
with the
lesson. To solve the first problem, I used some handouts to help the students learnt
the material. I made some handouts for the learning source which the materials were adapted and adopted from some internet websites and another book. In selecting the
texts, I chose the appropriate materials such as reading texts and some tasks that were relevant to the students of junior high schools, especially for the students of grade
VIII E SMPN 1 Pleret. The reason of giving some handouts was helping them to learn the materials and catching their attention so they would be interested in
learning them. Before doing this action, I made some lesson plans of the action and discussed them with the English teacher.
To solve the second problem, I created a group quiz and gave some rewards. The group quiz was created in order to make the students had more effort to show
their best competence in doing every teacher‟s instruction. The rewards were in the
form of giving good comments and gifts were used to appreciate their effort for the best and active students and groups. By creating a group quiz and giving rewards, I
could motivate the students to join all learning activities with high spirit. I implemented Facebook group to solve the third-sixth problems. The aim of
implementing it was to change the students‟ behavior that Facebook is not only used
for entertainment but also for education. So, besides entertainment purpose; writing status, uploading their private photos and videos or playing games in the Facebook,
they could learn how to make a good writing outside English class, everywhere and every time as long as they had internet connection. The writing activities in the
Facebook were interesting because they would be combined with uploading photos and stimulating other students to be active to respons
e their friends‟ writing work.
B. The Implementation of Cycle I
1. Planning
Considering the problems identified above, some efforts were planned to solve them. The efforts were focused on improving writing learning process through
Facebook group. Based on the results of the discussion with the collaborator in a democratic and dialogic atmosphere on August6, 2014, the action plans of the first
Cycle that would be performed are presented below.
a. Giving some handouts of the materials
Each student would get some handouts during the English class to help his or her learning. Some handouts would be distributed whenever they learnt new
materials. It would consist of the explanation of materials and tasks. The materials were about a short message containing the expressions of stating and asking
someone‟s ability and willingness would be adapted and adopted from some internet websites and another main course book such as Interactive English. To enrich the
materials and tasks, I also would develop the materials by myself.
The difficulty level of the materials and tasks in the handouts would be adapted to VIII E students‟ writing ability which was known from the interview,
discussion with the collaborator, and the pre-test result.
b. Applying a group quiz
Considering the result of observations and interviews that some students were not motivated to take part in the teaching and learning process, I would give some
actions to improve students‟ motivation. I planned to make the teaching and learning atmosphere more motivating that was creating a group quiz.
I would give a quiz to the groups every once a week and share the quiz scores before we ended the English class every meeting. I would also motivate them to join
the quiz with high spirit during the implementation the teaching and learning. The questions of the quiz were around the tasks that I would give in the handouts. By
doing them, the students would never give up and always try to show their best abilities. It happened because the quiz would create rivalry atmosphere between the
students.
c. Giving some rewards
To appreciate the stude nts‟ effort when they succeeded in doing the tasks, I
would give them some rewards. The rewards would be in the form of good comments and gifts. Some good comments by saying
good, that‟s right, great, awesome, good job or
I‟m happy for having students like you would be given for students who tried to be active in the teaching and learning process, whereas the gifts
would be given for a student and group who succeeded to be the best and active student and group in the end of the actions.
d. Creating a Facebook group and implement it in the writing learning process
I would create the interesting Facebook group that would attract the students to learn. Creating interesting Facebook group to learn started from uploading the
cover picture of the group and giving it the attractive name. I also would choose the enjoyable picture to make the students interested to learn.
After creating a Facebook group, I would give the students some individual, pair and group tasks to support the students in practicing writing. In individual task,
they would write a sentence about the material explained recently. In pair task, the students were free to write and choose his her friend and they could do the tasks as
many as they liked. In a group task, I would make a group of four students by referring the pre-
test result. The activity for the group task was analyzing the friends‟ sentence in the individual or pair task that would have been written before.
2. Action and Observation in Cycle 1
The implementation of the actions in the first Cycle was done in three meetings. The first meeting was conducted on Saturday, September 6
th
, 2014, the second was on Monday, September 8
th
, 2014 and the third meeting was on Wednesday, September 10
th
, 2014. I acted as the teacher and the English teacher became the observer. In this Cycle, while the teacher implemented the action, the
collaborator took notes in the back of the class to observe the teaching and learning process. The complete description is provided below.
a. Giving Some handouts of the materials
Several days before the Cycle I implemented, I had prepared the handouts from many sources, such as some internet sources, from the students‟ main course
