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CHAPTER IV Research findings and discussion
This chapter presents the process, the results, and the interpretation of the finding of the research. The research was conducted in two cycles; Cycle I and Cycle
II. Each cycle consists of planning, action and observation, and also reflection.
A. Identification of the problems
To identify the problems in the teaching learning process in SMP N 1 Mlati, the researcher conducted an observation. The observation was conducted on Monday 6
May 2013. The observation result is in the form of field notes. The field notes below shows the process of teaching and learning in SMP N 1 Mlati. Besides that, it also
reflects the students’ behavior toward the writing ability. The field note is presented below.
When the bell rang, the teacher did not come to the class yet. She was still preparing the material for the upcoming cl
ass. Two students came to the teachers’ office to pick their teacher up. Then, they three went along to the class. When the
teacher entered the class, all the students were standing up and greeting their teacher with: “good morning teacher”. And the teacher responded with: “good morning
students”. After that, she then greeted students with: “how are you today?”. And the
students responded with: “I am fine. Thank you. And you?”. “I’m fine too. Thank you” responded the teacher. Then the teacher apologized to the students that she has
come late to the class. She explained why she came to the class late. The teacher said “I am sorry for coming late, ada yang harus saya kerjakan dulu”. “no problem
Ma’am, hehe. Ga papa” responded some of the students. The teacher explained the students why the researcher and the collaborator
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joined the class. “okay. So Mr Agus and Ms Wati, masih mau penelitian disini. Jadi mereka mau mengamati kalian belajar hari ini.” Some of the students greeted the
researcher and the collaborator. They had already known the researcher and the collaborator since the researcher and the collaborator had internship KKNPPL in
this school months ago, and they learned English together that time.
After that, the teacher started to explain what they would learn that day. The teacher said that they were going to learn to write. Then the teacher asked the
students to make a group of four and handed them with an envelope for each group. The envelope was contained with jumbled words. And the students were asked to
rearrange the words into a correct sentence and wrote it on the board. The students, then, did a little discussion with their group and some of them were just talking and
waiting the others to finish the task. And when it came for the students to write down their works, some of the group made common mistakes.
Then, the teacher asked the students to check their work together. And the teacher also gave further explanation about the material. After giving explanation, the
teacher gave another exercise to the students. This time, the students were asked to do the exercise in pair. Hence, some of the students, then, discussed with their partner to
finish the exercise. Similar to the first exercise, some of the students were not focused on doing the exercise. They preferred to chat or walking to their friends. Hence, the
teacher asked them to sit down and start doing the exercise. When they were asked to
sit down and do the exercise, they said that they didn’t know what to do. Hence, the researcher guided them in doing the exercise.
The researcher and the collaborator helped the teacher in monitoring the class activities. Some of the students were so active that they asked many questions
regarding to the activities. The researcher walked from one group to another to answer some question.
After that, the teacher asked some of the students to write their work down on the whiteboard. The teacher picked the students from each pair randomly and the
chosen students wrote their work on the whiteboard. After that, the teacher together with the students checked the answers on the whiteboard. The teacher not only
checked the answer but also gave further explanation regarding the material.
When it was ten minutes left for the teaching-learning process, the teacher summed up the materials that had been given by asking some question to the
students. After that, the teacher gave some homework that should be submitted in next meeting. After that, the teacher closed the class.
FN 16-05-13p.113-115
From the field notes above, the students were good enough in doing simple writing tasks. Although there were still some students who did not know what the
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