Data Collection Procedure IMPLEMENTING SEQUENCE PICTURES TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT FOR GRADE X OF MAN LAB UIN IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2013/2014.

2. Planning After getting manageable problems to overcome, the research members worked collaboratively to find possible actions to overcome the problems. Then, the researcher made a list of some plans that have been agreed by the research members, and the researcher formulates the plans of action that would be implemented. The formulation of the plans included the materials that will be given in the action. The materials are taken from many resources with some adaptations to make them fit with the topic. After that, the researcher arranged the lesson plans and consulted them with the teacher and the collaborator. 3. Acting and observing the action After formulating the plans including the materials and the lesson plans is agreed by the research members, and then the researcher implements the actions in the class. The researcher does the actions and the English teacher of class X and the collaborato r observe the students’ writing ability during the implementation of the action. 4. Reflection After implementing the action, the researcher did some interviews to the research members and students to know whether the action had significant effect or not. After doing evaluation, the researcher and other research members analyzed the research findings. Based on the result of the analysis, the researcher, the teacher, and the collaborator can continue to formulate the plans for the next cycle. 51

CHAPTER IV REASEARCH FINDING AND DISCUSSION

This study was conducted by implementing action reasearch method. The reseracher implemented the actions to improve the teaching leaning process. In this case, the aim of this research was improving the teaching learning process of writing narrative through the use of sequence picures. The participants were the students of class XA MAN LAB UIN Yogyakarta the accademic year of 20132014.

A. Researh Process

Detail information of the research process is presented in the following discussion. 1. Identification of the field problems Before implementing the actions, the researcher firstly conducted reconnaissance to identify the existing problems in the field. The reconnaisance done by researcher included some important activities. They were class observation and interview. Those activities were conducted on October 16- 25 2013. The first activity carried out by the researcher was observing the English teaching and learning process of grade XA. It was done to collect any valuable the problems that arose during the teaching and learning process in the classrom. Then interviewing the teacher and the students was the second activity done by researcher. The interviwes were done to collect information about the teacher and the studen ts’ perspective about the teaching and learning process