Determining of the Research Problem

2. Actions and Observations

There were two meetings in cycle 1 that hold on Friday, November 8, Wednesday, November 13, 2013. The actions were concerned in implementing communicative games through directed discussion games which required the students to work collaboratively in a group discussing the given topic. In this cycle, the collaborator would look around and see the process of English classroom. The data during cycle 1 were collected through observation field notes and interviews. a. Using English classroom during the teaching and learning process. English was used in every meeting during the learning and teaching process to make the students more familiar with English words. It used in several ways like greeting the students, opening the lesson, eliciting the materials that would be learnt, explaining the material, giving the instructions, giving feedback and also closing the lesson. As planned before, there would be some translations into Indonesian when the researcher found some students getting difficulty in understanding the instruction. Generally, English that was used during cycle 1 was effective to give students the example of right pronunciation and also to increase students ‘confidence to speak English as there were always two-way communication between the researcher as the teacher and the students. It could be seen in the extract below. Then P gave an apperception and explained the topic about global warming. P also displayed the video about global warming effect and also proposed input text of asking and giving opinion dialogue between two people. P asked the students”Well class, do you feel that the weather today become hotter and unpredicted?”. The students only said with the word “yes yes yes mbak”. P again asked the students in English “So what do you think about the weather and climate changing on our earth? What can cause all of those?” Some students looked confused and P repeated it again into bahasa Indonesia. Some students could answer P’s question “Global warming mbak, because global warming”. P responded students’ answer “Yes, that’s right. Global warming can cause the weather and climate changing so the temperature becomes hotter” So what can cause global warming class?” Some students could answer the question in English but only in word level and some others answered it with bahasa Indonesia. Field note 4, Friday, November 8 th , 2013 b. Implementing Directed Discussion Games The implementation of the directed discussion games in this cycle was conducted in two meetings. The topic that the students would discuss was global warming phenomena. The directed discussion games consisted of two kind of games, namely comment and pessimists optimist game. It required the students to express and sharing opinion each other. In this cycle, the directed discussion games were used as tools to initiate the students to communicate in English during the teaching and learning process. They worked collaboratively within the group to solve the problem related to the topic and shared it in front of the class later. The description of this action for each meeting is presented below. 1 1 st meeting The first meeting was implemented on Friday, November 8 th , 2013. The directed discussion games that were done in the first meeting were the comments game. The topic of the game is global warming which required the students to gather related information than discuss it within the group to find the best argument. The researcher used the learning technique of ESA engage, study, activate. In the first