Interview script P : Kamu suka ga sama teks yang dibagi tadi?
Did you like the text given to you? S : Suka, mba. Itu setelah mba ceritain. Soalnya ga mudeng sama kata-
katanya. Yes, I liked, miss, after you explained it for me. I did not understand
the words. P : Kalo suka, harusnya semangat buat nyari arti dari kata-kata di teks
tadi dong. Continued
on the board. When the activities had been done, the researcher summarized the lesson and ensured herself that the students got the idea. The researcher ended up
the lesson by saying closing greeting.
c. Reflection
The implementation of actions in Cycle 1 had been done in two meetings. From the information stated before, there are some points that can be reflected
from the actions done. Some actions were considered successful and others were unsuccessful. Details of the reflection are presented below.
1 The successful actions
1 The students‟ involvement in the classroom improved and could be
easily seen from their active engagement in the discussion activity. The topics of the discussion were mainly about the process of making the
mind map and about the narrative text that they worked on. 2
The students‟ interest and motivation were improved too. They were given narrative texts which were familiar with them. It made them
interested to join in the reading activity in the classroom. This way could minimize the students‟ boredom. They could express their
feelings by drawing colourful pictures in the mind map too.
3 There was a guide for the students to read effectively. The students got
a way to read a text to find information which could save their time and energy. They just read a text at glance with some clues of several
unknown words which were given by the researcher before the reading activity.
2 The unsuccessful actions
1 The students still faced difficulties in recognizing topic of a text. They
were confused when they had to find it among so many sentences they read. They chose other statement instead of the topic that they could not
find. 2
Paraphrasing was one of the difficulties. The students felt that paraphrasing was very confusing because they had to make a sentence
using their own words because they had limited vocabulary mastery. 3
The other problem which had not improved yet was vocabulary mastery. The students often complained about the difficult words in the
text. They seldom used their dictionary even they had or they were supplied by their school. They often relied on their teacher to know the
unknown words. Continued
If you liked it, you must be motivated to find the meanings of the words, right?
S : Iya dong, mba. Kan biar bisa jawab soalnya juga. Sama ngerjain mind map juga.
Yes. Ofcourse. I had to find the meanings in order to answer the questions and make the mind map.
P: Researcher S: Student
2. The Report of Cycle 2
