Technique for Analyzing Data

improve the cadets ’ vocabulary mastery of IMO Standard Marine Communication Phrases or not.

CHAPTER IV RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

This chapter presents the finding and discussion of the research. It is divided into three parts; process of the research, findings, and discussion

4.1. Process of The Research

4.1.1. Introduction

The research was conducted at the 3 rd semester of Politeknik Ilmu Pelayaran Semarang. The researcher was the practitioner who implemented the action and was the observer who observed the process of research. The researcher also observed the research implementation result during the teaching learning process as a reflection.

4.1.2. Research Implementation

The implementation of teaching vocabulary especialy in IMO phrases SMCP’s through back chaining drills technique through classroom action research consisted of two cycles. Each cycle consisted of four meetings for delivering the material and one meeting for post test. Each meeting took 100 minutes. In all cycles, IMO Standard Marine Communication Phrases were used as teaching material. For the first cycle, the researcher used distress messages as the teaching material. For the second cycle, search and rescue, and requesting medical assistance were used as the teaching material. Every cycle consisted of steps consisting of identifying the problem, planning the action, implementing the action, observing or monitoring the action, reflecting and evaluating the result of the observation and revising the plan. The description of each cycle is presented in the following parts. 4.1.3. Cycle 1 4.1.3.1. Identifying the Problem Before the researcher implemented the research, she did some observations. The researcher found problems in teaching Maritime English Vocabulary, especially Standard Marine Communication Phrases. The researcher found out that the cadets’ vocabularies are poor. It can be seen from the following aspects: 1 the low scores of cadets’ test on vocabulary 2 the difficulties in pronouncing the words correctly and 3 the difficulties in using Standard Marine Communication Phrases. The researcher also observed the condition of the classroom. Classroom situation was quiet. It was not because the cadets paid attention to the learning material, but they felt that the teaching technique was not interesting even some cadets seemed bored during teaching and learning process. They were not enthusiastic with the material although the material was different in every meeting. When the lecturer asked some questions during the teaching and learning process, the cadets could not answer the questions because they didn’t understand about the learning material. The researcher interviewed the cadets and they said that learning English especially about IMO Standard Marine Communication Phrases were very difficult. They have to memorize many phrases and pronounce them correctly. The preliminary observation also reveals the possible causes of the problem above, that the cadets’ attention and motivation is low, some of them are not aware how important it is to use maritime English in their future either because they are not sure if they will pursue careers in this field or because they rely on their knowledge of general English, underestimating the role of maritime terminology. Another difficulty for cadets is memorization of maritime vocabulary when they do not know the meaning of the words in their native language. The students tended to be passive during the lesson. They sometimes did not pay attention to the lesson. Besides, in the interview with some students before research, the researcher also found that almost some cadets felt that English is difficult language. They said that some English maritime vocabularies are difficult to memorize because they never used them in daily speaking, they only used in teaching and learning process. The cadets said that they were bored with the activities in teaching and learning process because they had to memorize the vocabularies that they didn’t understand about the real meaning of the vocabularies. During the teaching and learning process they also felt sleepy because they were not interested in the material. The materials were delivered by using lecturing, so it made the cadets felt bored too. Because the cadets’ were not enthusiastic and not interested in the teaching and learning material, they could not understand the materials, so their understanding about Standard Marine Communication Phrases was low even bad.

4.1.3.2. Planning the Action

Finding the fact that the cadets’ vocabularies mastery was poor, especially about Standard Marine Communication Phrases which showed their low achievement, the researcher planned to teach them by choosing a certain teaching technique. The chosen technique is back chaining drills technique. This technique is a technique used in teaching oral language skills, especially with polysyllabic or difficult words. The teacher pronounces the last syllable, the student repeats, and