Selecting the Problems to Solve

G : “Saya belum pernah melakukan itu. Sebenarnya saya sudah memikirkan bahwa mungkin media tersebut akan membuat siswa lebih antusias dalam mengikuti pelajaran, tapi saya merasa kesulitan mendapatkan video yang pas dengan materi yang diajarkan .” No, I had not implemented it. Actually, I have thought about it before that it will be a great way to make the students interested in the lesson. However, I found difficulty in finding the proper videos that were suitable for the materials that were taught. Interview transcript 8 ____________________________________________________________ Animated stories have some elements and advantages that could help students solve their problems in writing. In writing a narrative text, students need ideas, grammar mastery, vocabulary mastery and also the order of the stories themselves. That is why animated stories would be useful for the students. Animated stories provide many things such as the order of the story, the proper example of grammar usage as the stories in the video contain sentences that make the story perfect. They also provide the vocabulary needed to write a text. The relation between the solvable problems and the action that would be implemented can be seen as follows. Table 8: The Feasible Problems, the Solutions and the Expected Results No Field Problems Solutions Expected Results to Achieve 1. Students thought that the lesson was monotonous and uninteresting. Using short English animated stories as input and also as a mean to attract the students to be interested in the lesson. a. The teaching and learning process would be more interesting for the students. b. The students would get content of the story better. Continued 2. Continued The students still had limited knowledge about the story they wrote. Providing the numerous narrative stories text and also short animated stories. Students had adequate knowledge and ideas about narrative text and stories. 3. The students did not know about the generic structure of a narrative text, so they did not write a story with correct order Providing sufficient and clear explanation about the nature of text. Students were able to write narrative texts with correct generic structure. 4. The students committed mistakes when writing irregular verbs as the regular ones. Providing grammatical exercises drills. Students would be aware of the grammar rules and ideas about narrative text. 5. Most of students did not consistently use past tense in writing a narrative text. 6. The students were not aware of the word class between adjectives and verbs. 7. The students did some spelling mistakes for some words such as althougt, maried daughther, etc. Providing vocabulary tasks to increase their vocabulary mastery. a. Students could improve their vocabulary mastery. b. Students are able to spell words correctly. 8. The students did not put a full stop to indicate the end of the sentence paragraph. a. Students were required to give feedback to each other in pairs. b. The teacherresearcher provided feedback. Students would be aware of the mistakes they did in the texts. 9. The students did not write in the capital letter for the first letter at the beginning of the sentence and for some particular objects.