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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS
1. Description of the Data
a. Findings of the Preliminary Study
1. Data from interview
a. Data from Interview of the Teacher
The interview was conducted on August 5
th
2010. The first was an unstructured interview. The word
‘unstructured’ is perhaps not completely accurate, in that, by definition, an interview must
have some kind of structure otherwise it would simply be a conversation.
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First, the writer only asked the teacher about problems in the classroom. Furthermore, the writer conducted structured
interview using interview guidelines. Here, the teacher answered some questions about English teaching learning process at SD AL-
FATH Cirendeu. Those were the general condition in English class primarily on students’ vocabulary mastery, the difficulties faced by
students and the kinds of strategies implemented by the teacher previously before Classroom Action Research CAR to improve
students’ English vocabulary. First, the teacher answered question about general condition
of the class. The teacher said that sometimes the students followed the lesson enthusiastically but sometimes they did not really reactive
with the lesson. Speaking and reading were considered as English skills which students feel hard to master. Including vocabulary
mastery and difficulties in understanding some vocabularies that they found in the written English text book, some of them get
difficulties because of the lack of vocabulary. The teacher said that there were some difficulties faced by students in understanding some
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Michael J. Wallace, Action Research for Language Teachers. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, p.146.
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vocabularies in English texts. The teacher got the story from the story book and internet. Moreover, the teacher stated that it was hard
for some students to pass the criterion of minimum completeness KKM concerning the school policy which reaches to 70. So that,
the teacher still tries to solve that problem. See appendix 2
b. Data from Interview of the Students
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