The Characteristics of Classroom Action Research

37 The researcher uses cooperative learning method to teach the students in XI IPA 2. Slavin 1995 describes , “cooperative learning refers to a variety of teaching method in which students work in small groups to help one another learn academic content” p. 2. This method is concerned on creating small group of learners which allow them to work together and complete the task Artz Newman, 1990 as cited by Huda, 2012. Cooperative learning also increases the students‟ motivation in learning activity. Sharan 1990 as cited by Isjoni 2013 supports, “By using cooperative learning the students will have high motivation because of encouragement from their peers ” p. 35. The students have motivation in the learning process and the learning objectives will be accomplished. In teaching writing, the researcher applies genre based approach. It focuses on the products of writing by examining a text. The researcher applies this approach to ensure that the students wrote a narrative story with a complete generic structure. In addition, the teacher ensures that the students understand a narrative through a text that the teacher showed. Genre based approach is consisted of five main stages. Those are building the context, modeling and deconstructing, join construction of the text, independent construction of the text, and linking to related text Feez, 1998. However, in this research implementation, the researcher does not use the last stage, namely linking to related text. It is because the researcher does not ask the students to compare the narrative text with other types. The researcher focuses on building the students‟ motivation to produce a narrative text. In conducting this research, the researcher increases the students‟ motivation by inferring from the actions during the 38 teaching learning process. The use of pictures series are implemented to increase students‟ motivation in writing narrative. In conclusion, by using pictures series which are implemented through each cycle, the researcher expects that the students‟ motivation in writing a narrative text increases. In addition, the students obtain better quality of learning and the teacher can make improvement from the teaching learning process. The learning process also leads the students to make self-improvements and progress.