Reconnaissance Data Validity and Reability

Discussion Games technique, the researcher and the collaborator also observed the condition of the class to know students’ responses. Finally, the reflections were done in each meeting in every cycle to evaluate the actions. Reflections were needed to find out the problem that might arise during the teaching and learning process and then to be overcome in the following meeting.

1. Identification of the Field Problems

Identification of the field problems was done after conducting observation and interviewing both English teacher and some students of class XI IPS 2 of SMAN 2 Sleman for one a half hours on Wednesday October 30 th 2013. The situation and condition of the teaching and learning process was described in the following field note observation below. After Mrs.S entered the class and introduced P to the students in the class XI IPS 1, P sat behind observing the teaching and learning process on that day. While waiting for students who came late to the class, Mrs.S played some jokes to the students. When the students were complete, Mrs.S started to begin the lesson by having a praying and greeting the students. After that, Mrs.S asked the students to seek difficult words in the listening transcript that has been distributed before. Then, Mrs.S discussed the words and translated it before playing the audio recording. After discussing the difficult words, Mrs.S played the audio recording for about twice up to third time. When Mrs.S finished playing the audio, she asked the students to write their answer in the white board and it could be different each other. After Mrs.S gave the explanation about the material, some students answered in the Indonesian language but most of them were sleepy and did not pay attention to the teacher’s talk and even interacted with others. Bahasa Indonesia and English were used by Mrs.S during the English classroom. According to Mrs.S, listening session was the material that she delivered on that day in order to save the energy. It could be seen that some students who were given the questions from Mrs.S looked having a hesitation to answer and even they pointed another students to do it. There were some students answering the questions from Mrs.S in wrong choice of words and mispronouncing the words. The words that were often mispronounced by the students were foreign, low,