Planning the Action Cycles 2

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C. Cycles 2

1. Planning the Action

Based on the result of the first cycle, the teacher and the collaborators planned cycle two. The researcher planned the action for cycle two as follows: a. The teacher gave the explanation how to study vocabulary whether it was done through contexts or word by word. b. The teacher gave the explanation of grammar and how to arrange their idea in English well. c. The teacher gave interesting activities in vocabulary class. It was done by game d. The teacher gave outside-class activity for individual consultation. The aim of the activity was used to know the ability of the students individually. Besides the activity was used in the class, other activities were also done outside the class. To make the students confident with their own ability, the teacher did individual consultation to the students in cycle two. The consultation was done outside the class. It was done after the practicum class. The consultation was done every day from at November 2 nd , 2007 until November 24 th , 2007. Each day there were five students who had to consult their texts or their difficulties of English. Every student had one hour to consult hisher difficulties. The individual consultation was done outside class because most of the students had her own text and wanted to consult it by himself in order to understand it. So it is impossible to do this activity in the class. The individual consultation discussed about the difficult words, the meaning of the words, the content of their texts, and other difficulties which they faced in 116 English class. In individual consultation the students also brought their own texts. Besides that the teacher gave them the task which had to be done at home. They had to submit their tasks on the other day. If they felt difficult they were permitted to consult it to the teacher. The consultation was done at 12.00 PM. The consultation discussed about their own texts, grammatical difficulties, and the unknown words in their text, and also the way to pronounce words. In solving pronunciation problems the teacher asked the students to listen to the word through CD on computer. In grammatical difficulties the teacher asked the students to write each sentence in their texts and write the parts of speech found in each sentence. The students still got difficulty to write the parts of speech, so the teacher guided them by asking the students to look for the parts of speech of each word up in the dictionary. Most the students didn’t have a complete dictionary, so the teacher facilitated them by preparing a complete dictionary in their consultation. In this activity there was a closed relationship between students and teacher. The students had a chance to ask many difficulties of English closely. They weren’t afraid to ask many questions. On the other hand, the teacher knew their problems of English individually so that individual treatment can be given.

2. Implementing Action in Cycle 2