of general English, underestimating the role of maritime terminology. Another difficulty for cadets is memorization of maritime vocabulary when they do not
know the meaning of the words in their native language. The students tended to be
passive during the lesson. They sometimes did not pay attention to the lesson. Besides, in the interview with some students before research, the researcher also
found that almost some cadets felt that English is difficult language. They said that some English maritime vocabularies are difficult to memorize because they never
used them in daily speaking, they only used in teaching and learning process. The cadets said that they were bored with the activities in teaching and learning process
because they had to memorize the vocabularies that they didn’t understand about
the real meaning of the vocabularies. During the teaching and learning process they also felt sleepy because they were not interested in the material. The materials were
delivered by using lecturing, so it made the cadets felt bored too. Because the cadets’ were not enthusiastic and not interested in the teaching and learning
material, they could not understand the materials, so their understanding about Standard Marine Communication Phrases was low even bad.
4.1.3.2. Planning the Action
Finding the fact that the cadets’ vocabularies mastery was poor, especially about Standard Marine Communication Phrases which showed their low
achievement, the researcher planned to teach them by choosing a certain teaching technique. The chosen technique is back chaining drills technique. This technique
is a technique used in teaching oral language skills, especially with polysyllabic or difficult words. The teacher pronounces the last syllable, the student repeats, and
then the teacher continues, working backwards from the end of the word to the beginning. In the classroom backchaining is one of many drilling techniques which
can be used to focus on pronunciation problems. It is particularly useful to help learners pronounce weak, elided or intrusive sounds. In addition to helping learners
say difficult phrases, it is also fun. The researcher believed that back chaining drills technique was an
appropriate technique to improve cadets’ vocabulary mastery because drilling
techique which is also known as ‘an army method’ is suitable with the cadets’ daily
activities who is educated and trained in dormitory and they have to obey very strict rules.
To implement that technique, the researcher constructed a lesson plan as teacher’s guidance in teaching, prepared the materials based on the curriculum,
made students’ worksheet consisted of some tasks and everything related to the action. The action plan would be implemented by the researcher. She also observed
the whole process during the teaching learning process in classroom.
4.1.3.3. Implementing the Action
The action plan was implemented by the researcher In this first cycle the researcher began the class by explaining what SMCP’s was and gave the cadets
some examples of how seafarers on board ships usi ng the SMCP’s. The materials
in first cycle was about distress messages involving fireexplosion, flooding, collision, grounding, list-danger of capsizing, sinking, disabled and adrift, armed
attackpiracy, under designated distress, abandoning vessels, and person overboard.
