2 Making the Lesson Plans
The lesson plan was made through discussing the activities, time allocation, objectives of the activities and materials throughout. The lesson plan
was designed with the suitable activities to minimize the problems in the class. The lesson plans were used as the guidance for the teaching and learning process.
The class was expected to run smoothly and systematically. It was expected also to ease the students to understand the materials that were given by the teacher.
b. The Concept of Actions Plan
1 Implementing the Interaction-based Activities
In this cycle, the activities would 1 employ the stages of genre based which consisted of building knowledge of the field, modelling of the text, joint
construction of the text, and individual construction of the text, 2 provide more games in reading activities, and 3 provide more texts.
2 Training the Students to Use Reading Techniques and Strategies
Concerning the students’ progress in comprehending the text, the activities in this cycle would 1 encourage the students to apply the reading
techniques, such as guessing, scanning and skimming, 2 train them to deal with various text, and 3 vary the activities which were expected to be the ways to
develop the students’ vocabulary mastery.
3 Teaching Grammatical Points
Grammar would be taught again during the actions. Moreover, the other activities would 1 integrate inductive and deductive approach, 2 be integrated
in reading activities and or grammar explanation alone, and 3 teach the students
other grammatical points 4 check their knowledge about part of speech and tenses.
4 Using Power point, Pictures and handout
Since the power point, the pictures and the handout were effective to them. It helped them also to learn, so those media still used in Cycle II. There
were corrections of the media that would make them more useful such as made the clearer and bigger slide so they could read it clearly. The media would be
used effectively and efficiently.
5 Motivating the Students through Stories and Experiences
Moti vation was highly necessary to boost the students’ self-motivation in
learning, particularly learning English. Telling the students inspiring stories and experiences would make them more confident in English.
6 Giving rewards to the students
Giving rewards were necessary to students. It could motivate them to be more active in the class. Some gifts such as food or something else would
encourage them to do the best.
2. Actions and Observation in Cycle II
Here the process of the implementation of the actions in Cycle II. It conducted the actions in three meetings on April 19
th
, 25
th
, and 26
th
, 2014.
a. Implementing the Interaction-based Activities
In this cycle, the students were already familiar with the activities of interactive activities. They could follow the instruction well. However, this was
the challenge to create fresh atmosphere in the classroom. To turn them on, the
