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The Result of Pre Interview

CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS

This chapter presents the result of research. In this case, it discusses the way to imp rove the students‟ ability in using prepositions of place through TPR at VII.8 of SMPN 10 Kota Tangerang Selatan academic year 2010 2011. Related to the discussion of the result, it is divided into three parts. Those are before implementing of CAR, after implementing the action, discussion of all the data after implementing the action.

A. Before Implementing the Action

There were four parts related to before implementing the action. Those were pre interview, pre observation, pre test, and pre questionnaire. The explanation was as follow:

1. The Result of Pre Interview

Pre interview was conducted on Wednesday, January 5 th 2011. Here, the writer asked to the teacher some questions which is divided into three categories. Those were the general condition in English class primarily on grammar, the difficulties faced by the students in prepositions of place, in particular about the students‟ ability in using prepositions of place and the kinds of strategies implemented by the teacher previously before CAR to imp rove students‟ ability in using prepositions of place. First category discussed about the general condition in English class primarily on grammar, in particular about the students‟ ability in using prepositions of place in sentences. The teacher said that some students cannot understand and they were still confused to remember of each meaning of prepositions of place. And they cannot use the prepositions of place in the sentence. Second category was related to th e teacher‟s strategy in teaching grammar material in prepositions of place previously to solve the students‟ difficulties to understand of each meaning of prepositions of place. It was found that the teacher applied Grammar Translation Method GTM in teaching grammar. He explained about the material and then gave the example of the sentences. As the assignment, the teacher asked the students to do some exercises from the students‟ handbook called LKS. After that, the teacher together with the students disscussed the answers of the exercises and sometimes he translated the sentence into Bahasa Indonesia. Up to now, the teacher has been looking for an alternative way to teach grammar in order to imp rove his students‟ ability and also to motivate the students through an appropriate teaching technique in the classroom. At last, the teacher agreed to implement TPR in a ssisting students‟ ability in using prepositions of place. See Appendix 7.a: 83-85

2. The Result of Pre Observation

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