Teaching Grammatical Points Actions and Observation in Cycle II
To check whether the pictures series help the students or not, informal interviews with the students were done after the class over. The students were
provided the pictures series in their tasks. They were asked to retell the story through the pictures with their vocabulary, so the students could memorize the
story well. This way helped them to comprehend the text. The transcript of the interview can be seen below.
Another media was the handouts. The students were given the handouts of the materials to ease them following the activities. The handouts consisted of the
materials and some tasks. After the students got the handouts, they discussed it with their classmates. The list of irregular verbs that were provided in the
handouts eased the students learning the grammatical points especially the past tense. The description of the situations is presented below.
In the classroom activities, those media were used efficiently and effectively. Keeping the projector off while it was not used anymore was one of
R :
Apakah gambar-gambar tadi mempermudah kamu dalam bercerita
? Did the pictures help you to retell the story?
S11 :
Iya mas, jadi inget ceritanya
. Yes, it did. It helped me to memorize the story.
Interview Transcripts April, 26 2014
…R asked them to say the keywords one by one. Ss said, “The Tiger and the Fox, the Fox said that he is a king of the jungle, the animals in terror, and the
Tiger bowed low to the Fox”. To check their answer, R distributed handout of the materials consisting of the materials and list of irregular verbs.
Then we continued discussing the specific information. R and Ss tried to comprehend the text through the specific information that they get. R asked
them several questions related the specific information. They could answer it easily.
Vignette 4: Saturday, April 19, 2014
the way to make it effective. So, the students could focus on the learning process. However, the English teacher suggested me to turn the projector on before since
it needed time to be ready to use.