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CHAPTER IV RESULTS AND DISCUSSSION
In chapter IV, I explained about the result of preliminary research, students‟
behavioral changing, first activity pre - test, second activity treatment I, third activity treatment II, fourth activity post
– test and quetionnaire and discussion.
4.1 The Result of Preliminary Research
A
ction research is usually conducted in some cycles. Before conducting research activities, I surveyed SMK N 1 Slawi on March 19, 2011. I met the head master
for asking a permission to observe the teaching writing and learning process by using genre
– based approach. Then, I explained the design of my research to the English teacher. I observed the teaching and learning process of the English
teacher on March 25
th
, 2011. Based on the interview with the English teacher, she only explained little bit about generic structure and language features of genre, but
she didn‟t ask the students to write and apply it, because it took a long time. Considering that fact, I conducted a re
search to know the students‟ writing skill by using genre
– based approach. Here, I explained about the generic structure, language features, writing mechanism and social function of procedural text, then
applied it to write a good procedural text. I conducted the research for four activities: pre
– test, cycle 1, cycle 2, and post test. The activities were held in nine meetings.
The first activity was conducted on March 26
th
2011, I asked the students to make a procedural text as a pre
– test. The purpose of pre – test was used to check the students‟ ability in producing procedural text. I wanted to know whether or
not the students could produce a procedural text based on the topic given. This stage was intended to know the students‟ weakness before having some
treatments. The second activity was first cycle or treatment I. It was conducted on
March 29
th
,31
th
, and, April 1
st
2011. After conducting the pre – test, I gave some
treatments to make students‟ writing better. I explained about procedural text briefly and how to make it by using generic structure and language features
lexicogrammatical features. In the treatment, I gave the test, based on five elements: fluency, grammar, vocabulary, content, and spelling . In this case, I
hoped the student‟s writing improved by noticing those five elements, and then I gave them first questionnaire to investigate students‟ needs, interests, motivation,
like and dislike to the English subject. The third activity was second cycle or treatment II. It was conducted on
April 5
th
, 7
th
and 8
th
2011. In this treatment, I also explained again a procedural text briefly and how to make it by using generic structure and language features.
The last activity was post – test and giving questionnaire. It was conducted April
9
th
2011, I wanted to know whether the students‟ writing improved or not. The
schedule of the research could be seen in the following table 4.1.
Table 4.1 The Schedule of the Research
Date Activity
Pre -Test Cycle 1
Cycle 2 Post –Test
25
th
March 2011
26
th
March 2011
29
th
March 2011
31
th
March 2011
1
st
April 2011
5
th
April 2011
7
th
April 2011
8
th
April 2011
9
th
April 2011
4.2 The S tudents’ Behavioral Changing in the Learning Process
