asking information to their partner. Student A and B were not allowed to look at each other’ maps. It spent fifteen minutes to play this game.
2. Action
The actions were carried out as what the researcher had planned in advance. In the first meeting, the researcher acted as the teacher, while the teacher
acted as the observer. In the second meeting, it was the teacher who acted as the teacher and the researcher would be the observer, but it was the researcher who
always led the song and games. The first two meeting activities were described as follows:
1. The teacher greeted the class, asked about the presence of the students, delivered the competence, and introduced the material, namely asking about
locations. 2. The teacher conducted song Preposition Song to begin the class and introduce
the material. 3. The teacher explained the material
4. The teacher conducted games, namely Crossword Puzzle Where Are You? meeting 1 and Blind Map meeting 2
5. The teacher gave tests to the students. meeting 2
3. Observation
After greeting, the teacher began the lesson by implementing song entitled Preposition Song
. The teacher used pictures describing locations to make the
preposition clear to the students. The teacher sang while her hand pointed out the pictures. During implementation of the song, some reluctant students did not sing.
They only looked at the picture on the whiteboard. When they entered the end of each line of the song which required them to clap, they clapped noisily. They
liked clapping hands instead of singing the song. Some students looked sleepy and spiritless. After singing, the researcher discussed the prepositions found in the
song. The students paid attention to the discussion. After implementing the song, the teacher explained the material. The
material in the meeting 1 was asking about location of things around the class and home. In the meeting 2, the material was about asking about location of places.
After that, when the students’ understanding was at their best, the teacher conducted games, namely crossword puzzle Where Are You? meeting 1 and
Blind Map meeting 2.
The students’ manners in doing the games in the meeting 1 and 2 were quite similar. When the teacher moved around the class to check whether they did
the task smoothly or not, some reluctant students surprisingly did not do the task. The teacher saw that their works were still blank. Two students were busy
drawing things in their books and made unimportant notes in their books, while other students made noises in class. Meanwhile, some girl students did gossiping
with their seatmate or friends sat in front and behind them. Some cheated their friends’ works. One student walked around the class without any guilty. When the
teacher came to their seats and addressed them, they kept silent and continued
doing the task. When the teacher walked away from them, they continued making noises.
Another problem emerged when the students did game in the meeting 2. There were four students who even did not know what they had to do with the
task because they did not listen to the researcher’s instruction. These students always asked the teacher what they had to do with the task, when the teacher came
to their seats. The teacher had to explain more and more to these students. But actually, the teacher had explained the instruction clearly in advance and always
checked their understanding by giving questions “Do you understand the instructions, Students?” All the students always said “Yes”. What follows was the
conversation between the teacher T and Student 1 S1 T : “Mengapa masih kosong?” “Why is there still empty?”
S1 : “Disuruh ngapain to Miss?” “What do we have to do, Miss?” T : “Tadi tidak memperhatikan ya, rame sendiri ya.” “It seemed that you
did not listen to the instruction, right” S1 : “Enggak kok Miss.” “No, I didn’t.”
T : “Kalau tadi memperhatikan pasti tahu.” “If you listened, you have known what to do
Another problem emerged. The reluctant students liked cheating their partner’s map instead of taking turn in getting information. They were lazy to ask
and give information. From the observation done, it could be concluded that the actions in the
cycle 1 were not quite successful. There were some problems in implementing
songs and games to increase students’ participation in the English teaching and learning process. These problems will be explained further in the reflection.
4. Reflection
