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3. Distributing the questionnaire to know the students’
interest and opinion about the use of look and say technique
in teaching English. Observation
Analyzing and collecting the result of the action to know to what extent it reaches the objective.
Reflection Finding out the significant progress of the whole processes of the
study. Analyzing the result of field notes and questionnaire.
3.3 Instruments of the Study
To support my study, I utilized three kinds of instruments: tests, field notes and questionnaire. These instruments were appropriate to the school environment
and could be used effectively and efficiently to collect the data needed.
3.3.1 Test
A test is a method of measuring a person’s ability, knowledge, or performance in given domain Brown, 2004, 3. Test plays an important role in teaching and learning
experience. The tests used in this research are pre-test, two formative tests and post test.
The pre-test was conducted to check the students’ reading ability in comprehending the materials. The students were given 25 items of multiple choices test. If the
students’ results of the pre-test are lower than the criterion, I will begin to conduct
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action research cycles by using the new technique. There were two cycles. In the end of every cycle, I presented 10 items of multiple choices as formative test to know the
result of the students after they had been treated by using look and say in the action. After all of the cycles are done, I gave post-test to compare the difference of
the results of the students between before and after the look and say treatments given to them. In this test, I presented 25 items of multiple choices test.
3.3.2 Field Notes
Field notes were used to collect qualitative data. Field notes described the situation and the activities during the teaching and learning process. By using field notes, I
could know whether the teaching and learning process was making progress or declined.
In this study, I wanted to observe, to check, and to take notes about: 1 The class situation during teaching and learning process;
2 The implementation of look and say technique in teaching and learning process; 3 The participation of the students in teaching and learning process;
4 The condition of reading ability of the students.
3.3.3 Questionnaire
Questionnaire is a list of questions to be answered by a number of people. The purpose of distributing questionnaire in this study was to collect information from the
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students about the factors that may influence their improvement in reading. To calculate the result of questionnaire, the formula is on next page:
∑x = the number of students’ answer
n = the total number of the students
I selected close questionnaire to be filled out by the students because it was relatively easy to construct and easy to analyze. The responses were only “Yes” and “No”. The
questionnaire was used to find out: 1 The students’ interest in learning English, especially reading;
2 The advantages students got after using look and say technique; 3 The students’ opinion about the continuity of the program conducted during the
action research.
3.4 Procedures of Collecting Data
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