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were not reluctant to ask the teacher the colour for each fruit. everytime they wanted to ask to the teacher, they had to mention the names of fruits in English.
c. The third meeting
In the third meeting, the first post-test was conducted to know the students’ achievement in learning the vocabulary after the treatment was
implemented. The result of the the first post-test showed improvement of students’ mean score. The mean score increased from 57.76 in pre-test to 65.56
in post-test.
e. Reflecting the Action
Based on the result of the observation, the researcher did the reflection of the action. The researcher wanted to know whether the action was successful
or not by doing the reflection. The researcher would also be able to find several positive results and weaknesses. When the researcher found the weaknesses,
she can find a way to solve it. There were things which the researcher noted down as the positive
results. The teaching learning activities during the implementation of the contextual teaching and learning were generally well organized. The researcher
noticed that the students were very excited in doing some activities, for example: field trip and colouring. From the implementation of the method, there
were some positive results that the researcher noted down. They are: 1 learning by experiencing gave the students motivation, 2 the students learned more
vocabulary than they should, 3 group work gave them a chance to help each other, 4 learning outside the classroom attracted their attention. Those points
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showed a positive change of students’ behavior in joining the lesson. It was reflected from their active role in identifying the things around them. The
students had enough courage to ask questions. Besides, there were also several things which were considered to be
weaknesses. Some students dominated the group and there were a group who did not know what to do. For example: when the teacher supervised group two,
only one or two students did their task. The teacher had told the researcher at the pre-observation that group work is not familiar to the students. They had never
applied group activity in English class before. Another group, group five were not able to complete the task successfully. When the researcher asked the
teacher, the teacher said that group five consisted of poor vocabulary mastery students. It means that the researcher had to arrange a new plan to solve the
problem. The result of the test shows that the mean score of pre-test is 57.76 and
the mean score of post-test is 65.5 6. It means that the students’ vocabulary
increased though it was not significant. Even though in general the researcher found the students’ improvement in vocabulary, the students’ ability in spelling
was poor compared with pronouncing and understanding the meaning. In the result of post-test I, the students made a lot of mistakes in doing spelling test.
Based on the research reflection above, it can be concluded that the result of cycle one was not satisfactory because the result of learning vocabulary is not
satisfactory yet.
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f. Revising the Plan
