response what the teacher commanded easily. They also seemed enthusiastic and fun in doing the action.
According to students’ score from pretest to posttest 2 there was a significant improvement that was shown by the students; it was
76.31 students or 29 students who achieved the minimal mastery level criterion or Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal KKM score. It means,
the writer and the teacher’s effort were successful to improve students’ understanding of imperative sentence. After achieving the target
research that was minimally 70 students who achieved the minimal mastery level criterion or Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal KKM,
therefore the writer and the teacher decided to stop the Classroom Action Research.
Based on the result of the evaluation and reflection between the writer and the teacher, it could be concluded that using Total
Physical Response method in improving students’ understanding of imperative sentence that implemented in Classroom Action Research
was very effective and suitable to solve the problem.
4. Findings after Implementing the Classroom Action Research CAR a. The Result of Post Interview
The unstructured interview with the teacher was conducted after implementing the Total Physical Response method in improving
the students’ understanding of imperative sentence and after accomplishing cycle 2. It was conducted on Wednesday, January 19
th
2011.It started at 10.00 A.M and finished at 10.30 A.M. It was conducted to know the teacher’s response after the teacher
implemented the Total Physical Response method in teaching imperative sentence. In this case, the writer divided into three
categories of questions. Those were the general condition in English class during Classroom Action Research, the difficulties in
implementing Total Physical Response method during Classroom Action Research, and the strategy had been used to solve the problems.
The first category was the general condition in English class during Classroom Action Research. The teacher said that after using
Total Physical Response method, the condition in English class was really good. The response from the students about Total Physical
Response was also very good. They were interested because they could get up from the chair and doing physical movement. The students
knew how to response the imperative sentence when the teacher asked them to do something. And the students also knew what verb that had
to be used to make an imperative sentence. It means that the students knew how to use and response the imperative sentence. They were able
to produce a sentence in the imperative sentence. They also seemed more active when the learning process and active learning shows that
the learning process was fun. It might be reduce students stress when learning the material.
The second category was about the difficulty in implementing the Total Physical Response TPR method during
Classroom Action Research. The teacher faced some difficulties in using the Total Physical Response method. Firstly, the teacher was
hard to make the students more active than before. They did not want to do the act in the class. Then, the lack of students’ in understanding
the verb that would use in doing the act of verb made them confused with still keep asking how to act of verb at the first time as what the
teacher commanded. And also the students got trouble in making an imperative sentence, because they still confused in using the verb and
made the sentence with the right pattern. It was happened because when the teacher explained the pattern, the teacher talked too fast.
Then, the last category was about the strategy that had been used to solve the problems during the Classroom Action Research. In
this case, the teacher and the writer kept collaborating in finding the
