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4.3 Students’ Improvement on Their Performance in Understanding Vocabulary Items of Narrative Text
4.3.1 Cycle 1
On the first day, the students were asked about their understanding of narrative text in general. The writer also asked them about their previous post-test. They were asked about
their difficulties that they had found in answering the questions. All the students were conveyed their problems to the writer. The writer tried to solve their problems with the
treatment which was prepared before. A song was prepared as the treatment for the students. It was not a usual song; it was a narrative song which could improve students understanding
toward narrative text. The tittle of the song was “Fire Coming Out of a Monkey’s Head”. The lyric of the song was distributed through the class leader, and the song was
played for several times to improve students understanding in narrative text. It was also used to improve students’ curiosity in learning new words. After they listened to the song,
students were asked to write the difficult words related to the song in their book. After they wrote the difficult words, the writer gave them some assignments related to the song. They
were asked to find the difficult words in their dictionary and find the synonym of the words which were listed by the teacher in a piece of paper. Some of them seemed worried and
unconfident with the assignments. So, they had the privilege to form a group consisted of 4- 5 person. Their motivation went high when they could form a group with their friends. The
writer noticed that and gave an interesting activity for them. The reward was also provided for the winner to make the activity more challenging than before.
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On the second day of cycle 1, the explanation about vocabulary was given to the students. It explained about the elements in vocabulary in general. After the explanation, the
class leader was asked to distribute missing lyric papers to his friends. When all the students received it, the song was played and they were asked to listen to the song carefully, find the
missing word, and write it to their missing lyric paper. The missing lyric paper was used to know the treatment process from the first day.
The writer also prepared a games for the students as the fun activity in learning vocabulary. The game was quite simple. It was just a matchmaking game related to the
vocabulary synonym and antonym in the “Fire Coming Out of a Monkey’s Head” song. The students were asked to form a group consisted of 4-5 person. Each group should
choose the leader and the name of the group. When the group was formed, the leader should pick the material for matchmaking game from the writer. After the material was taken, the
writer asked them to wait for the next instruction. The writer also gave the explanation about the rule of the game. The rule of the game was very simple; the correct group would be the
winner. The next instruction was given for the students to start the game. While the game
was started, the writer observed their activeness and the participation in this game activity. The writer kept their activeness by cheering them to compete against other groups in a good
way. After finishing their work, the representative of each group was called to come
forward and show their group work in front of the class. Other groups were asked to give
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comments or correction when they found wrong answers. The writer noticed that they enjoyed the activity based on their faces, acts, and talks.
In this game, the writer not only observed their process in learning vocabulary but also determined the next activity for them to get a satisfactory improvement in learning this
thing.
4.3.2 Description of the Cycle 1 test
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