knew and checked their pronunciation. After that she asked them to determine the topic and the title of the passage, finding the main idea, supporting idea, and
specific information from the text. After doing those activities, the writer together with the students made a discussion about the material. In each meeting the writer
made evaluation and gave assessment to the students by giving mini exercises.
c. Observing
In this phase, the writer together with the English teacher of class VIII-1 observed the teaching learning process by monitoring the students’ activities in
each cycle. The writer and the English teacher saw that most of the meetings were not good and still had much lackness, the students still had difficulties in teaching
learning activities. In the first meeting, the English teacher saw that many students had
difficulty of the verb two form; they still confused about the irregular verb forms. They also had a problem with negative and interrogative forms of the Simple Past
Tense, some of them often used verb 2 in negative and interrogative forms. For example: My father did not asked me to study hard,
it should be “My father did not ask me to study hard
”. “Did you saw that movie last night?” It should be “Did you see that movie last night?”.
In the second meeting, the writer focused on reading comprehension, writing and speaking. According to the English teacher observation, the students
had problem in determining main idea and supporting idea, they could not distinguish between them and schematic structure itself. In writing activity, they
did not do it well. They could not write grammatically, they did not know the use of part of speech, and did not know when to use to be in a sentence. The other
problem was the lack of vocabularies and practice, so it made the students hard to write what on their mind.
After teaching and learning process finished, the observer gave them to posttest 1 exactly on the second action of the first cycle to measure how well the
students’ understanding of the Simple Past Tense used narrative text that had been studied.
d. Reflecting
After analyzing the data by observing and evaluating the result of the teaching learning process and st
udents’ pretest and posttest scores in cycle I, the writer and the English teacher of class VIII-1 concluded that the first cycle was
not good; so it is very important for her to give more activities, exercises, and practice to the students to get a better result. Most students had difficulties in
negative and interrogative form of Simple Past Tense, they confused when they must use the verb 2 forms, most of them used verb 2 in negative and interrogative
forms. They also still confused about the irregular verbs forms. In reading the writer found that the students still had difficulties in determining the main idea
and supporting idea from the text. Based on the observation above, the writer saw that there were many
lacks in the first cycle, such as the students have not mastered the irregular verbs yet, they still confused whether use verb 1 or verb 2 in negative and interrogative
forms. In reading, they could not differentiate between main idea and supporting idea. In writing, they could not make write coherently. In speaking, they still need
much time to find some words and their pronunciation also still bad. To solve the problem above, the English teacher suggested the writer to
make new evaluation and renewed the plan for the next cycle, and after having discussion with the English teacher, the writer together with the English teacher
found the solutions. For misusing the verb in negative and interrogative form, she would give more explanation and exercises to the students. She would ask them to
analyze the Simple Past Tense sentences from the text, so they knew the form and pattern correctly. The writer would give task to them to read a text in the house in
every meeting; they had to determine the main idea and supporting idea in each paragraph and then summarized the text. In the last, the writer should give more
attention and exercises to the students, especially the students who have low knowledge and understanding in the Simple Past Tense.
