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F. Research Procedure

This research followed the steps of action research designed by Kemmis and McTaggart in Burns 2010: 8. The steps which were implemented in each stage involved reconnaissance, planning, action, observation, and reflection. 1. Reconnaissance In this stage, the observation was done to examine the teaching and learning process of English happened in the classroom and the interviews were gathered with the English teacher and the students as well to gain important data. The observation was focused on collecting information related to the students‟ writing abilities especially for writing recount texts before implementing the dialogue journal technique to know the problems that existed there and the causes of the problems as well. A limited preliminary observation and interviews were conducted in purpose to identify the problems from both parties, the students of class X-C of SMA N 5 Magelang and the English teacher. 2. Planning After the problems had been identified successfully, the research team discussed the best way to solve the problems and to bring improvement in quality of teaching and learning process. In planning the actions, the research team worked together to prepare the techniques, materials and the actions to be performed as well as the instruments to collect the data 60 during the research. Those were implemented in order to solve the problems in the class of X-C of SMA N 5 Magelang. 3. Action After the plans were well decided, the actions were performed in the field. They were done in two cycles which each cycle took of two classroom meetings. Before the actions were implemented, the students were given a test to examine their ability in writing recount text. In addition, at the end of the cycle, a test was administered to the students to examine how far the implementation of the dialogue journal technique in the cycle influenced their writing fluency. 4. Observation During the actions, the English teacher as the collaborator acted as an observer that monitored the students‟ behavior and observed on everything happened in the classroom. Based on the results of the observations, the research team made reflections on the previous activities and determined the changes of actions they would do on the next meeting. 5. Reflection The research team reflected on and evaluated the effect of the actions implemented in the first cycle. After that, the effects and obstacles during the actions were analyzed in order to tell what had happened and to understand more deeply about the issues. Moreover, the English teacher and the students as well were interviewed to know their opinions and 61 feelings towards the actions. Based on the those data, the next cycle was planned to make more significant improvement. 62

CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS