Theoretical triangulation Data validity and Reliability

42 joined the class. “okay. So Mr Agus and Ms Wati, masih mau penelitian disini. Jadi mereka mau mengamati kalian belajar hari ini.” Some of the students greeted the researcher and the collaborator. They had already known the researcher and the collaborator since the researcher and the collaborator had internship KKNPPL in this school months ago, and they learned English together that time. After that, the teacher started to explain what they would learn that day. The teacher said that they were going to learn to write. Then the teacher asked the students to make a group of four and handed them with an envelope for each group. The envelope was contained with jumbled words. And the students were asked to rearrange the words into a correct sentence and wrote it on the board. The students, then, did a little discussion with their group and some of them were just talking and waiting the others to finish the task. And when it came for the students to write down their works, some of the group made common mistakes. Then, the teacher asked the students to check their work together. And the teacher also gave further explanation about the material. After giving explanation, the teacher gave another exercise to the students. This time, the students were asked to do the exercise in pair. Hence, some of the students, then, discussed with their partner to finish the exercise. Similar to the first exercise, some of the students were not focused on doing the exercise. They preferred to chat or walking to their friends. Hence, the teacher asked them to sit down and start doing the exercise. When they were asked to sit down and do the exercise, they said that they didn’t know what to do. Hence, the researcher guided them in doing the exercise. The researcher and the collaborator helped the teacher in monitoring the class activities. Some of the students were so active that they asked many questions regarding to the activities. The researcher walked from one group to another to answer some question. After that, the teacher asked some of the students to write their work down on the whiteboard. The teacher picked the students from each pair randomly and the chosen students wrote their work on the whiteboard. After that, the teacher together with the students checked the answers on the whiteboard. The teacher not only checked the answer but also gave further explanation regarding the material. When it was ten minutes left for the teaching-learning process, the teacher summed up the materials that had been given by asking some question to the students. After that, the teacher gave some homework that should be submitted in next meeting. After that, the teacher closed the class. FN 16-05-13p.113-115 From the field notes above, the students were good enough in doing simple writing tasks. Although there were still some students who did not know what the 43 instruction was, they seemed to enjoy the writing activities, especially the girls. Yet, most of the students did the common mistakes such as incorrect spelling and wrong sentence construction. Hence, in order to conduct the research to improve the students’ ability in writing descriptive text, the researcher did an interview with the teacher. The interview was meant to find out the further problem and hindrance that the students faced during the teaching –learning process. From the interview transcript with the English teacher, there are several problems related to the students’ writing ability. The problems can be divided into three. They are the problems related to the grammar, vocabulary, and generating ideas. 1 Problem related to grammar Based on the interview with the English teacher, there is a problem related to the use of grammar by the students. It can be seen in the interview transcript below. R : Bu kalau selama ini kesulitan anak-anak dalam menulis apa bu? So Mam, what is the common problem that the students face in writing? ET : ya klasik mas, masih cara tulisnya apalagi spellingnya mas. Penggunaan to be aja masih belum lancar juga.