Planning The Report of Cycle 2
81 In order to develop the skill of finding the main ideas of paragraphs, the
researcher and the collaborators discussed the activities that would possibly be used during the teaching and learning process. They decided to use the Ideas-
sketching activity Visual-Spatial intelligence technique and the Jigsaw activity Bodily Kinesthetic, Interpersonal, Linguistics intelligence technique to develop
the students’ skill. Both of the teaching techniques, in the researcher and the collaborator’s opinion, would be good activities for students developing their
skill. It was because both activities ask the students to get main idea of each paragraph before they could finish the activities. These activities were also
expected to broaden the teacher’s knowledge of teaching techniques. Meanwhile, the other skills were still used in cycle 2 but not as the major
focus of the actions. Furthermore, the researcher would only review the grammar knowledge to the students in each meeting. However, the researcher would still
develop the students’ vocabulary knowledge. Based on the discussion with the teacher, the researcher would still use the previous teaching techniques that were
using picture, music-video, and Socratic-questioning teaching techniques.
2 promoting group discussion to improve the classroom interaction
between the teacher and the students and among the students and the students’ participation.
In the previous cycle, the group discussion has successfully rebuilt the rapport between the teacher and the students and among the students and triggered
the students to get involved. However, the implementation of the actions was once considered not quite successful. The researcher, according the collaborator, has
82 not mastered the classroom management technique. Therefore, in cycle 2, the
researcher would be wiser while dealing with the students. She would not grouped noisy students with the other noisy student. The researcher had asked the teacher
about the information related to the noisy students. The researcher would change the students’ group if they became noisy. It was done so that the students would
remain calm and not noisy. Before conducting the actions, the researcher also made the lesson plan
and the research instruments. The lesson plan was made based on the discussion between the researcher and the collaborator about the actions in cycle 2.
Meanwhile, the research instruments consisted of observation sheet for the teaching and learning process and interview guide. The instruments were same as
the previous one.