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5. Reflecting the results of the descriptive paragraph writing achievement test and observation in the second cycle descriptively.
6. Drawing a conclusion to answer the research problems.
3.2 Research Area Determination Method
The area of this action research determined purposively. According to Fraenkel and Wallen 2000:112, a purposive method is a method in choosing a
research based on a certain purpose or reason. There were some considerations of choosing SMPN 2 Dringu as the research area. First, based on the interview with the
seventh grade English teacher of SMPN 2 Dringu, the English teacher informed that the seventh grade students of SMPN 2 Dringu still had difficulties in writing a
descriptive paragraph. Second, the English teacher in that school had never used individual pictures in teaching writing a descriptive paragraph in her class. Third, the
headmaster and the English teacher gave permission to the researcher to conduct a classroom action research in that school. In addition, the English teacher agreed to
collaborate with the researcher to conduct this action research.
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3 Research Subjects Determination Method
The subjects of this research were the seventh grade students of SMPN 2 Dringu, especially VII A class in the 20142015 academic year. There were four
classes of the seventh grade in SMP Negeri 2 Dringu in the 20142015 academic year. The researcher only chose one class as the research subjects who had the lowest
mean score in writing among the four classes and it was VII – A class. The number of the students in this class was 31 students which consisted of 19 boys and 12 girls.
Based on the information from the English teacher in the preliminary study, the VII-
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A class students still had difficulties in writing. Moreover, the minimum standard requirement score of English at this school was 70, but the students who could
reach the target score of 70 were only 18 58.06 students of 31 students. In addition, according to the teacher’s information that the students’ participation in
this teaching learning process of English was still passive.
3.4 Data Collection Methods
