Cycle II Pre Activities

4.4 Cycle II

This cycle was applied since the result of the learning product and process of Cycle I could not fulfill the indicators of the research. In Cycle II, the researcher and the teacher must pay attention to the result of Cycle I. In line with the information from the reflection of Cycle I about the weaknesses happened in the learning product and learning process, the researcher and the teacher implemented the solutions of the weaknesses in Cycle II. This cycle was done in two meetings: the treatment and the vocabulary test. The treatment was done on Tuesday, January 24 th , 2012. Then the test was done in the next meetings on Tuesday, January 31 th , 2012. It was not different from previous cycle; this cycle also consisted of planning, action, observation, interpretation, analysis and reflection. They will be described as follows:

1. Planning

The planning step in the first cycle covers: preparing the learning material. The material was still same with the first cycle that was taken based on the curriculum. Then, make the lesson plan for the second cycle. Next, the teacher preparing the vocabulary task for the students and preparing the learning media for the teaching and learning process, the teacher used the picture as the media in this cycle. Finally, the teacher preparing observation sheets used to observe the teacher‟s performance and students‟ activities.

2. Action

The second cycle was done on Tuesday, January 24 th , 2012 for the treatment. And the vocabulary test was done on Tuesday, January 31 th , 2012. The meeting was held for 2 x 45 minutes and it was still followed by 30 students. For this cycle, teacher had prepared the material that same with the first cycle. The processes in this step covered pre activities, while activities and post activities. The explanation is as follows:

a. Pre Activities

As what the teacher did in Cycle I, at the beginning of the teaching and learning process in Cycle II, the teacher greeted the students in English and then checked the students‟ attendance list. Having done it, the teacher asked the students about the previous lesson that was about sport. The teacher asked the students some questions related to the topic so that the students remembered the lesson before. Then the teacher informed the competence that would be achieved after the teaching and learning process. In doing an apperception, in this cycle she tried to stimulate the students‟ background knowledge. The teacher asked the students about the previous lesson so that the students remembered the materials about and asking several questions related to their real life, it was done to stimulate their imagination to relate the next lesson.

b. While Activities