Planning The Report of the Cycles 1. The Report of Cycle 1

1 The first meeting The first meeting was conducted on Tuesday, February 16 th 2016. The researcher started the class at 10.15 am. The researcher opened the class by greeting the students. Then, she checked the students’ attendance. There was one student who absent in that day. After that, the researcher told her purpose of the meeting to the students. The topic was introduced to the students. It was about recount text. Firstly, the students were asked about their knowledge toward recount text. Some students answered the questions, but the others looked confused. Then, an example of recount text entitled My Holiday was presented to the students. There were cue cards in the form of pictures to help the students understand the story. After the students analyzed the text, the generic structure and the language features were explained. The students looked enthusiastic to listen to the researcher’s explanation. Then, the researcher gave them chance to ask questions, but none of them raised their hand. After that, some exercises were given to the students. The first exercise was about matching the sentences with pictures. The students looked so happy. They did the exercise easily. Then, they were asked to identify the generic structure and language features of a text in pairs. After they finished the exercises, the next exercises were given. The condition of the class was under controlled. In the last forty minutes, the students were asked to arrange the jumbled words and sentences in pairs. They could do it well in the beginning, but they still had difficulty in arranging jumbled words to be complicated sentence. The researcher helped them. The last exercise was about making sentences based on cue cards in the form of pictures. The students were given six pictures. Then, they had to glue those pictures on a piece of paper and make a sentence for each picture. They could finish the exercise before the bell rang. They were asked to submit their works. After that, the researcher asked about students’ feeling. They were very happy that day. After summarized the lesson, the researcher asked the leader of the class to lead the prayer. Then, the bell rang and the class was closed. After the class, one of the students was interviewed. The interview transcript is presented as follows. From the interview transcript above, it can be concluded that the students still had difficulty in writing because the roles such as grammar. They need more explanation about grammar. However, she said that using pictures made her easier to understand the material than using mind-mapping. It means cue cards which are in the form of pictures helped the students to understand the material. R : Gimana tadi belajar writingnya? How’s the writing learning process? S : Lumayan enak mbak. It was ok miss. R : Enak gimana? Why? S : Ya enak mbak, kemaren kan gurunya pake mind-mapping to. Tapi masih bingung. Nah ini tadi contohnya ada gambarnya jadi lebih gampang mudheng maksudnya. The teacher used to use mind-mapping, but I still confused. Today, you gave me the example with its pictures, so I could understand it easier. R : Oh gitu. Tadi ngerjain soal-soalnya bisa nggak? oh I see. Can you do the exercises well? S : Ya gitu mbak, masih suka bingung kalo nulis. Kan banyak aturannya kayak pakai past tense gitu. Kan bingung mbak. Yes, but I still feel confused. Moreover, there are many rules such as using past tense. 2 The second meeting The second meeting was conducted on Wednesday, February 17 th 2016. The class started at 10.15 am. Firstly, the researcher opened the class by greeting and checking the students’ attendance. There was no one absent that day. Then, she asked about the previous meeting. The students answered the questions. An example of recount text was given to the students. It was different with the previous meeting. The title was Going Fishing for the First Time. The students looked very enthusiastic with the pictures. After discussing the generic structure and languages features of the text, the researcher gave some exercises to the students. The exercises were aimed to improve students’ grammar, vocabulary, and developing idea. They were asked to translate some words into Bahasa and write some words based on the cue cards in the form of pictures. Besides, the students were given some interesting activities such as word search, and cloze exercise. Moreover, the regular and irregular verbs were introduced to the students. After they finished their works, the answer was discussed together. The researcher gave feedback to the students. The last exercise that day was making a recount text based on picture series individually. The students got six pictures and they had to make three sentences from each picture. There were some questions from the students such as “miss, what is the meaning of this?”, “what is the meaning of convenient in Bahasa?”, “miss, what should I do with this task?”. The students actively did the exercises. One of the students raised her hand and asked a question to the researcher “Miss, I still have