The Steps in Action Research

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3.4 The Steps in Action Research

This study was undertaken through three steps. At first, it was a pre-test, the second step was treatments, and the last step the students did the post-test. To make the steps in this research more clearly, the writer makes a chart as follows: 1. Step 1 Step 1 is conducting the pre-test. The pre test is conducted at the beginning of the research. It consists of 40 items. 2. Step 2 Action 1 The first activity In this activity, the writer performs the puppet. In this activity, the theme is kind of fruits and animals. The steps in teaching and learning process are as follows: 1 I performed the puppet to the students. 2 I introduced the name of the puppets to the students. 3 While performing the puppets, I asked the students about fruits and animals. I pronounced the words correctly and wrote it on the blackboard. 4 After that, I asked the students to repeat her many times, and then asked them to write the words in their books. 5 At the end of the lesson, I gave the students answer sheet and gave a short test to them. This activity was to check students’ understanding about this lesson. 32 2 The second activity In this activity, the step of teaching learning process was the same as in previous activity. In this activity, the theme is road sign. Before starting the lesson, I asked the students to mention ten noun words that were discussed at the previous meeting. The steps in teaching and learning process are as follows: 1 I performed the puppet to the students. 2 While performing the puppets, I asked the students about road signs. I pronounced the words correctly and wrote it in the blackboard. 3 After that I asked the students to repeat up her many times, and then asked them to write the words in their books. 4 At the end of the lesson, I gave the students answer sheet and gave a short test to them. This activity was to check students’ understanding about this lesson. 3 The third activity In this activity, the step of teaching learning process was the same as in the previous activity. In this activity, the theme is of parts of body. Before starting the lesson, I asked the students to mention ten noun words that were discussed at the previous meeting. The steps in teaching and learning process are as follows: 1 I performed the puppet to the students. 2 While performing the puppets, I asked the students to touch their nose, ears, etc. I pronounced the words correctly and wrote them on the blackboard. 33 3 After that I asked the students to repeat up her many times, and then asked them to write the words in their books. 4 At the end of the lesson, I gave the students answer sheet and gave a short test to them. This activity was to check students’ understanding about the lesson. 4 The fourth activity I performed the puppet to the students. While performing the puppets, I asked the students to mention the things in the classroom. I pronounced the words correctly and wrote them on the blackboard. After that, I asked the students to repeat up her many times, and then asked them to write the words in their books. At the end of the lesson, I gave the students answer sheet and gave a short test to them. This activity was to check students’ understanding about the lesson. 3. Step 3 In step three the post-test was conducted. In this post-test, the students had to do 40 multiple-choice items. The test is the same as the test before they followed the cycles. After doing post test, the students got their result of the last cycle test. Then, the writer gave questionnaires to the students. The students had to answer five questions. The analysis of the questionnaire is discussed in chapter IV.

3.5 The Criterion of the Assessment