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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
This chapter consists of three sections. The first section reveals the result of the preliminary study. The second reveals the description of the implementation
of the jigsaw technique. The third reveals how the jigsaw technique improved the students’ participation. The findings were obtained from a students’ participation
checklist, field notes, an observation sheet, a questionnaire and interviews. In this research, the researcher conducted three meetings for three cycles.
Each cycle consisted of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. The first cycle was conducted on Wednesday, March 13, 2013. The second cycle conducted on
Monday, March 18, 2013. The third cycle was on Wednesday, April 3, 2013.
A. Preliminary Study
The researcher conducted preliminary study twice in class VII.10. The first observation was on Friday, February 15, 2013 at 10.10 up to 10.50. The second
observation was on Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 10.10 up to 11.30. There were 30 students: 16 girls and 14 boys in this class. The researcher discussed the
preliminary study result in three parts. They were first observation result, second observation result, and preliminary study discussion.
1. First Observation Result
First observation resul t includes two parts. They are teacher’s observation
and students’ observation.
46 a. Teacher’s Observation
The teacher taught letters to the students. She used question answer method in this class. The students were asked to read their letters one by one and
then the teacher asked some students to make questions related to the letters, such as, who the sender is, who the receiver is, where the writer is, etc.
The students lacked opportunities to ask about letters. The teacher often asked the students to answer the question by pointing them directly than let the
students offered themselves to answer the question. The researcher found the teacher never gave feedback about the right answer. The teacher often pointed the
same students. The teacher also never gave a comment about the students’ letters. After that, the teacher asked the students to do the exercise from the textbook,
Let’s Talk for Seventh Grade. This condition made the students tend to be silent in the class.
b. Students’ Observation Some students participated in the class; however, almost all girls were
passive. There was only one student who actively followed the learning process. Three students raised their hands to ask questions about vocabulary. One student
refused to read her letter. In the beginning of the lesson, the students’ situation was quite noisy with the boys’ jokes. While in the middle of the lesson, the
students began to be silent.
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2. Second Observation Result
Second observation result includes two parts. They are teacher’s
observation and students’ observation. a. Teacher’s Observation
The teacher taught describing animals to the students. In the beginning of the lesson, the teacher directly asked the students to read the text loudly from the
textbook, Let’s Talk for Seventh Grade, about describing animal titled “My
Timmy”. Then, the teacher asked the students to answer some questions related to the text without explanation about the descriptive text. Then, the teacher asked the
students to discuss with their friends about the text. After that, the teacher discussed the questions by asking the students to answer it. In this second
observation, she gave a chance to the students to answer the question by themselves. However, the teacher still often pointed the same students to answer
the question directly. It was the same method with the previous observation.
b. Students’ Observation Some students in the back were busy with themselves. Five boys in the left
side played with a plaster to tie their friends’ shoes, whereas, two girls and three
boys came to the front of the class to ask about some vocabularies to the teacher. On the other hand, one boy in the back did his homework in the class and one boy
in his side played with his cell phone. The class situation was quite noisy though some girls were silent. When the teacher offered some questions to the students,
the students lacked participation to answer the question.
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3. Preliminary Study Discussion
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