3.4. Action Planning
The writer applies three cycles that consist of pre-test, cycle 1 and cycle 2. The data that is used here comes from students work in writing 2 class. First, she
gives pre-test to the students about report paragraph. They have to write a report paragraph about ‘book’ in about a hundred words. After getting the data she analyzes
the data and finally she gets the result as students’ score. The next cycle is started with getting the data from students’ paragraphs. They
still have to write a report paragraph in about a hundred words. The topic in this cycle is ‘library’. Then, she gives treatment that is thematic progression. After the data is
collected, she analyzes them and finally she gets the score. The last cycle is started with getting the data from students’ paragraphs. The
topic is ‘school’ they have to write a report paragraph in about hundred words. After she gives thematic progression, she analyzes the data again until she gets the result in
the form of score.
3.5 The Activities in Classroom Action Research
Lewin in McNiff 1988: 22 describe the process of action research as a series of continuous action in spirals that consists of four stages; they are planning, acting,
observing and reflecting. In this research, the writer adapted from McNiff proposes those activities. Here are the four stages of action research.
a Planning In this stage, the writer did some activities, for example find out the references
that related to thematic progression approach, report genre and teaching
learning cycle in English. Besides those activities, the writer also did some activities as follow:
1 Making a research schedule.
2 Making a lesson plan.
3 Making a questionnaire.
4 Making a scoring rubric for assessing students’ writing, making
scoring standard to measure the students’ success in writing b Acting
This research is done in phase independent construction of a new text. Students were asked to write a report paragraph in about hundred words. The
time allotment was 45 minutes. The practices about schematic structure and linguistic features of report genre have been done in the previous phases. The
examples of report genre were also given in phase modeling of text. Here are the actions planning of this research.
1 The lecturer gives the model of a report genre to the students.
2 The lecturer explains about thematic progression.
3 Students discuss and organize the draft of report genre that appropriate
to the topic. 4
Students write a report genre which in line with their draft. c Observing
The observation or evaluation of the students’ improvement in writing a report genre is done in each phase. The available data was analyzed
descriptively. The whole programs were evaluated from observation, questionnaire and scoring analysis. This information gives contribution in
reflecting the main problem. d Reflecting
In this stage, it can be revealed that the problem is solved or not. It means that the treatment truly gives improvement or not. If the result of each cycle is not
satisfied enough, the writer re-plans and continues to the next cycle. The model below is sequences in action research based on Kemmis adapted from
McNiff, 1988: 27
Figure 4. The Sequences in Action Research based on McNiff 1988
3.6 The Technique of Collecting Data
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