Reflecting the Actions Research Procedures
However, because there was no data on the students’ writing, the researcher held a pre-test to see the students’ ability in writing narrative texts on
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2013. She asked them to write a famous narrative text entitles “Robin Hood”. This narrative text chooses because most of the students ever read the
story or watched the movie, so that they have background knowledge about the story. The paragraphs consist of orientation, complication and resolution. The
result was most of the students could not produce a well-organized text. When they were assigned to write a composition, they found hard to decide what they
should write. As the result, they needed much time to finish their writing. In reference to the results of the classroom observations, interviews,and
also the students’ writing, the researcher found the field problems faced by students in learning writing, there were several problems related to the
organization. Most students were confused of what they should write. It seemed that the students needed to be taught how to organize the text and to develop their
ideas in a good order based on the generic structure of the narrative texts. From the identification above, there were some problems occurring during
the writing class. The following table presents the identified problems.
Table 3: The Fiel d Problems in the English Teaching and Learning Process in
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1. The teacher did not provide interesting media to the students.
2. The writing tasks were not challenging.
3. The teacher did not show a model of narrative text.
4. The teacher focused on arranging sentences than writing.
5. The teacher did not teach the stages of writing narrative texts.
6. The students paid no attention to the teacher.
7. The students were not motivated to do the tasks.
8. The students could not develop their ideas into written texts.
9. The students could not organize the story in a good order.
10. The students considered that English as a difficult lesson. 11. The students’ involvement in the teaching and learning process was low.
After finding the field problems, the researcher and the English teacher discussed further to select the problems based on the feasibility of the problems to
be solved collaboratively. From the discussion, the researcher and collaborators agreed to solve the most urgent problems. Those problems were formulated as
follows: 1 The students had low motivation in learning writing
2 The students could not develop the idea of the paragraph appropriately The next step was analyzing the problems. Based on the analysis, the
problems were caused by several factors as follows: 1. Teacher
During the observation, the researcher found that the teacher did not use interesting technique to engage students’ interest in the process of teaching
learning. The teacher only focused on explaining the materials and students did