Determining the Actions to Solve the Field Problems The Relationship between the Field Problems and the Actions

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c. Problems Selection based on the Feasibility to Solve

Because of the limitation of time, fund, and energy, some of the feasible problems to be solved were selected. The problems were as follows. Table 4: The Assessment of the Problems based on the Feasibility to Solve the Problems No Problems Code 1. The teaching media that were used in writing activity was not interesting. Mtr 2. Some students have little participation in every activities and were not involved in doing the assignment. St 3. Some students have little practice in writing. St 4. The activities were boring. Act

d. Pre-requisite Analysis

After determining the feasible problems needed to be solved, the pre-requisite analysis were done. They selected the feasible problems into prerequisite order. It aimed to find the cause-effect relationship between the problems and the action implemented. They agreed that the teaching minimum usage of media in the teaching and learning process became the major problem influencing other problems. The teacher also mostly has most order students to translate the text or just telling story which was not related to the learning activity.

e. Determining the Actions to Solve the Field Problems

Based on the identification of the most important problems that needed to be solved soon, those problems were considered that it was related to the students’ interest in writing. Students’ interest reflected to their involvement in every learning 54 activity in the classroom became an important aspect that influences the students’ success. Therefore, improving the students ’ learning process in writing through interesting media and activities was being the main goal. Table 5: The Actions to Solve the Field Problems No Actions 1. Implementing comic strips as the media of teaching-learning process 2. Giving the handout which contained more task related to the comic strips. 3. Applying interesting activities based on comic strips 4. Changing the classroom management

f. The Relationship between the Field Problems and the Actions

After the research action plans were designed, the research were linked with the field problem to make the activities based on the problem. So the solution to make problem solving of this research plan will be stated below. Table 6: The Relationship between the Field Problems and the Actions No Problems Actions 1. The teaching media used in writing activity were not interesting. Implementing comic strips as the media of teaching-learning process. 2. Students’ writing practice is very little. Giving handout which contained more task related to the comic strips. 55 3. Some students have little participation in every activity and were not involved in doing the assignment. Applying interesting activity related to the comic strips and changing the classroom management to put the students in groups. To solve the first and second problems, comic strips were implemented and the handout were distributed. The activities in using the comic strips were interesting for students at all. They dealt with so many kinds of comic that made they seem interested and combined with the teacher explanation during the lesson. Inside the comic strips activity were various and interesting. There were class presentations and team grouping. By combining the whole aspects, the English teaching and learning process would be better. Besides, the interesting activities were used to make the teaching and learning process more attractive for the students. In this cycle, the students were given the comic strips as the the input text to their worksheet later. First the students have to consider items that the recount text has. Then the students had to find one which has the items that the recount text has. The students were also provided by some reading comprehension taskbased from the comic they read. And to solve the third problem, the group work was applied. This helped the students to have self learning and built up discussion. In other words, the students allocated more time and energy to take part in the teaching and learning process. The students were willing to be involved in doing the assignment and concerning the problem in students’ participation in classroom activities. The plan to make the 56 teaching and learning management to be more interesting was used here, such as making group name with superheroes names and giving rewards of the activities they have done.

B. Implementation and Discussions