In this research, the writer used two cycles which consist of two meetings for each cycle. Each cycle consists of four phases: planning, acting, observing,
and reflecting. The improvement of the stude nts’ achievement in listening can be
seen from comparing the students’ score of pre-test, post-test I, and post-test II.
This research was held in MTs Annida Al Islamy April 18
th
up June 2
nd
2016.
a. Cycle One
1. Planning
Planning phase aims to prepare and to design all of the things before going to conduct the research well. In this phase, the writer designs lesson plan for
implementing the acting phase. First, making two lesson plans for two meetings in cycle one. Choosing the material from the
students’ textbook and educational website is the second step. Preparing the media such as power point, speaker,
work sheets, video, and audio is the third step. Creating structured observation sheet to find out the implementation process is the last step of planning phase.
2.
Acting
Acting is the process to do all the plans that has been designed in planning phase. In this phase, the writer roles as an English teacher who does the action by
teaching listening to the students using guessing game while the English teacher observes the writer during the teaching and learning process.
First meeting
In the first meeting, the teacher explained the descriptive text about animal by using power point. To warm up, the students were asked about the text given.
After that, the teacher conducted guessing game by giving video about animal which the students have to watch video carefully; the title is which animal is it.
They were intended to guess correctly the animal showed on the video by identifying and choosing the right picture based on the description given. To
answer, the student raised hand and stated the guess. Next, the teacher asked the students to play guessing game in group. Every
group has to listen the short description of animal from audio and answer the
name of animal based on the description that given. The group who knows the answer should write the answer on the white board.
As an exercise, the students listened a description audio about animal and had to answer the questions given. After finished the task, they discussed the
answers and the difficulties faced including the vocabularies.
Second meeting
Overall, the second meeting has same procedure with the first meeting. The different are the topic the title is pets and the way guessing game conducted
they played in pair. In conducting the guessing game, the teacher asked the students to play in
pair. Every student had to make short descriptive text about animal without stating the name of the animal that they were going to write. Then, a pair of students
came in front of the class to play. The first student mentioned the clues short description while the second student had to listen and tried to guess correctly the
name of animal based on the clues given then take a turn. For example:
Student 1: I am a domestic animal. I can run fast. My fur is really soft. I love to catch a mouse. Guess, who am I?
Student 2: It is a cat. After guessing game, the exercise and problems faced discussions were
ran as the first meeting.
3. Observing
Observation is an essential phase. It is not only used to make sure that the lesson plan run well, but also to observe the teaching and learning process. The
detail you get, the more information you have for reflection phase. In cycle one, the writer has been designed the structured observation form to be used by the
collaborator to observe the writer and the students ’ performance during the
research. Based on the result of observation, the students
’ performances were good which they were curious and interested in learning listening. In addition, the
students were involved actively during the class. Obviously, the class was alive
