free to tell everything about their family including their full name, nickname, relation, and even their hobby.
All the students were good in their performance. The students were better and improved their speaking ability especially their pronunciation. Their
confidence and their interest were in the high level. They seemed happy and feel interesting toward the speaking by doing an interesting activity such as speaking
performance. After that, I gave feedback and motivate the students to keep their interest toward English especially speaking. I asked the students to study English
seriously with their English teacher and ended the class.
c. Reflection of Cycle II
After implementing the actions, I and the collaborator discussed the actions. we reflected the actions and found out whether the action was successful or not.
The discussion was done based on the observations in the teaching and learning process, opinions from the students and the teacher. All opinions were collected.
The followings were the result of the discussion in reflecting the actions that had been implemented in Cycle II.
1 Conducting group work and giving rewards to increase the students’
enthusiasm in the speaking learning process. An effort to increas
e students’ enthusiasm in speaking learning process was successful. The activities provided opportunity for the students to share and
exchange information. Thus, the students were more involved in the teaching and learning process.
Having different group seating was successful in increasing their involvement toward the material during the learning process especially in
discussion. In group discussion, the students give their opinion in their group discussion. This activity helped the students to give their opinion and speak
freely. There was a group that is very well-cooperated. They managed their member to do their task in order to find the answer. This can be inferred from the
extract below.
Saat proses diskusi, beberapa kelompok terlihat cukup serius dengan apa yang harus didiskusikan. Mereka terlihat serius mencari beberapa jawaban.
Ada kelompok yang sangat terorganisir dalam kerjasama. Mereka berbagi tugas untuk mencari jawaban dari pertanyaan-pertanyaan yang harus
didiskusikan bersama
. When doing discussion, some groups seemed to be serious in discussing their work. They seem serious in searching for some
answers. There was a group that is very well-organized in their teamwork. They were managed themselves to look for the answer of the questions that
must be discussed together.
Source: Field Note 6, October 10
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, 2014, see Appendix A In addition, the implementation of giving rewards by giving good comments
and by giving things was successful. This effort was success to increase students ’
involvement in speaking learning process. By giving rewards such as things, the students become enthusiastic in doing the task or quiz. It made the students more
active in speaking learning process. 2 Providing animation movies as interesting media in the speaking learning
process. Using animation movies as interesting media in speaking learning process
was successful in getting students ’ attention and interest toward the material. The
students were interested with the media, they seemed more enthusiastic in learning the material while watching the movies.
The atmosphere in the class was relax but serious and the students sometimes imitated the pronunciation of some words in the movies. Some
students were watching seriously, some of them commenting the characters in the movies and even there were students who laughed when saw the character in the
movies. In addition, the students seemed relax and enjoyed the movies while learning the
material. It made them more interest in learning and they feel not boring while learning the material. It is supported by student’s statement below.
R: Researcher; S1: Student 1 R :
Kalau animasinya bagaimana? Menarik?
How about the animation movies? Do you interest?
S1 :
Ya lumayan lah mas. Nggak bikin bosen proses pembelajaran. Bisa jadi selingan juga.
Yes, a little bit. It makes me not boring toward the learning process. It can be a refreshing media too.
R :
Terus apa kamu termotivasi dalam speaking daripada sebelumnya?
Do you motivated in learning speaking than before? S1 :
Jujur sekarang ini aku lebih suka dari pada sebelumnya. Sebelumnya aku nggak terlalu suka bahasa Inggris. Tapi sekarang udah
mendingan walaupun belum sepenuhnya suka banget.
To be honest now I am more interest than before. Before, I do not like English. But
now it is better although I am not fully like it. Source: Interview Transcript 13, October 17
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, 2014, see Appendix B The students were happy and enjoyed the learning process by watching
animation movies. The reason was because it was unusual for them in learning speaking
while watching animation. It is supported by student’s statement below. R: Researcher; S1: Student 1
R :
........... Gimana kesanmu terhadap proses pembelajaran tadi?
..........What do you think about our learning process this morning? S1 :
Bagus mas. Ini hal baru bagi kami. Soalnya jarang lho disuruh speaking. Berkat pembelajaran akhir-akhir ini kami jadi sering
speaking dan jadi sedikit terbiasa dengan speaking.
It is good. That is a new thing for us. Because we are rarely in learning speaking.
Because our learning recently we often doing speaking and we have become accustomed with speaking.
R :
Jadi artinya kalian menikmatinya ya. Oke, kalau animasinya gimana? Kalian tertarik dan termotivasi nggak?
So it means you are enjoying it. Okay, how about the animation movies? Do you interest and
motivated? S1 :
Animasinya bagus, bermanfaat buat tambah pengetahuan. Kami tahu beberapa kosa kata baru. Kalau soal motivasi tiap siswa pasti beda -
beda, kalau bagiku cukup menambah motivasi untuk bisa berbahasa Inggris lebih baik dalam hal speaking.
The animation movies is good, it is good for our knowledge. We know new vocabularies. For
motivation it is different for each student, and to me it is quite motivated to be able to speak English better.
Source: Interview Transcript 14, October 17
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, 2014, see Appendix B Besides, the animation movies also provided the vocabulary that related to
the material. It was the effort to help the students with the lack of vocabulary. The students more understand with the meaning of some words in the movies. Some of
them write it down on their note book. It helped them so much in understanding some difficult words.
3 Applying speaking performance as an interesting activity. Speaking performance was chosen as an interesting activity in speaking
learning process. In which the students were asked to be creative in their performance. This activity was successful in increasing students
’ involvement and enthusiasm in learning speaking. They were more confidence and more relaxed
while performing in front of the class. Their performance showed improvement by the time. They were better in
pronunciation than before. Although there were some mistakes but it was better than the first time they were performing. The students also feel happy and
challenged with the speaking learning process. It is supported by student’s
statement below.
R: Researcher; S1: Student 1 R :
Gimana kesanmu terhadap proses pembelajaran di kelas tadi?
What do you think about our speaking learning process this morning?
S1 :
Keren mas. Aku jadi lebih tertarik kalau sering speak-speak kayak tadi. Soalnya pengen jadi MC terkenal. Haha.
It is cool. I am more interested when doing speaking frequently. Because I want to be a
famous host. Haha. R :
Halah, serius ini. Kenapa kok tertarik?
Please be serious. Why do you interest?
S1 :
Ya beda aja dari sebelum-sebelumnya. Biasanya kan banyak teorinya. Ini banyak prakteknya. Jadi lebih tertantang gitu lah.
Because it is different than our previous learning process. Usually we have more
theory. And this time we have more practice. So it makes me more challenged.
Source: Interview Transcript 15, October 17
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, 2014, see Appendix B The students also showed their improvement. It is supported by the
teacher’s statement below. R: Researcher; ET: English Teacher.
R :
Begini pak, menurut bapak kesan bapak tentang proses pembelajaran yang telah saya lakukan bagaimana?
Sir, what do you think about our learning process this morning?
ET :
Keseluruhan oke. Saya akui siswa jadi lebih terbiasa dengan speaking. Mereka jadi lebih rileks dan terlihat tidak grogi saat
perform. Mereka yang awalnya masih kurang bisa dan terbiasa dalam hal speaking menjadi lebih baik sekarang. Beberapa siswa
mulai menunjukkan peningkatan dalam pronunciation.
Overall is okay. I admit that the students become more accustomed with
speaking. They are more relax and do not look nervous when doing speaking performance. They are who unable to do speaking in the
beginning become able to do speaking performance better. Some students show their improvement in term of pronunciation.
Source: Interview Transcript 16, October 17
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, 2014, see Appendix B This kind of activity helped the students in some aspects like confidence,
students’ involvement and increasing their interest toward speaking. The activity made the students more familiar with speaking and it helped them to build their
confidence in speaking English.
d. Summary of Cycle II
