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The researcher planned to use two types of reward. The first one was concrete reward such as gifts and the second one was less concrete reward like
points. The reward in the form of gifts would be given at the end of the research, whereas the points would be given throughout the remaining meetings.
b. Actions and Observation
1 Fourth Meeting
The fourth meeting was conducted on 13
th
of February, 2015. After the researcher entered the classroom, she greeted the students and then asked the chief
of the class to lead a prayer. She then proceeded to check the students’ attendance
and instructed the students to go back to their own groups. They were quick to do it as they had already been fairly familiar with the
process. However, this time, the researcher had to stop the groups to sit randomly, wherever they wanted. She ordered group one, two, and three to sit in the first
lane from the door, group one in the front, group two in the middle, and group three at the back.
She then arranged the fourth and fifth group to sit in the second lane, group four in the front and group five behind them. She also asked group six and
seven to arrange their own seats but in lane three, with the sixth group in the front and the seventh group at the back.
The last three groups were asked to place themselves in lane four, with group eight in the front, group nine in the middle, and group ten at the very back.
The researcher also told the groups in lane one and four to get extra chairs from lane two and three if they needed.
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The lesson was begun by doing the first exercise which was matching famous places and their locations. The researcher also had each group to write a
sentence describing every famous place in the picture. It seemed that the students were quite into doing this kind of activity so the
researcher decided to walk around the class to check their progress and she found out that the students had made a lot of improvement even though some of them
still asked her about the English word of this or that.
After about eight minutes, the groups had finished the exercise. The researcher asked whether there was anyone who wanted to share their group work
with the class. She also told them that if they volunteered, it would earn them a plus point. Upon hearing this statement, the students scrambled for a chance to
share their work and while they wrote the answers, the researcher noted down their names.
Once they were done, the researcher told the class to look at the answers and decide whether they were all correct or there was still something wrong with
them. Surprisingly, all the answers were right. The next activity was to fill in the blanks. This was needed to improve the
students’ vocabulary mastery and check their understanding in sentence structure and how to use verbs appropriately. Because this exercise was quite easy for
them, they finished their work within five minutes which was quite a progress.
“Latihannya gampang ya?” “Iya, Miss. Suka lihat gambar tempat-tempat wisata juga.”
Field note 22, February 13
th
, 2015
