Instrument in Data Collecting
facilitator, helped the students who had difficulties in speaking English. In the same time, the collaborator observed the students activity in the classroom.
In the end of this meeting, the teacher reflected the material had been studied by asking the students about expression asking and giving opinion. The
teacher also asked the students individually about the material to know their individual comprehension.
In this meeting, the students were interested when they discussed and drew a picture on the paper. However, there were still many students who didn‟t know
how to do the activity because they didn‟t pay attention to the teacher explanation before. There were also two groups which didn‟t have a change to practice the
activity, because the time was limited.
Second meeting, February 16
th
2011 Friendship
In the second meeting, the teacher opened the class and motivated the students by giving a BOOM game. In this game, the students had to count from 1
to 50 and they had to say BOOM in a particular number, for example 6, 16, 26, so on. The students who did a mistake would be given a punishment to clean the
blackboard. Then, the teacher told the goal of learning that was to make students are
able to express asking and giving opinion in real communication. After that, the teacher asked about the material which had been studied in the last meeting to
refresh the students‟ knowledge. Theme which is taught in this meeting is about friendship. The teacher
asked about friendship to the students before going on the activity. She also shown a picture of group of comedian in Indonesia and asked about their
friendship to make students more interested in learning speaking. The students discussed about good friend in pair, and practice a dialogue
about good friend using expression of asking and giving opinion. The teacher had given an example of a dialogue about good friend using expression of asking and
giving opinion before. While the class was practicing the dialogues, the teacher
helped the students who had difficulties in speaking English and the observer observed the students activity.
In the end of this meeting, the teacher reflected the material by asking some pairs randomly about their opinion about good friend to know their
comprehension. Then, the teacher asked the difficulties which they had during the activity.
In this meeting, there were some students who are lack of vocabularies about the characteristic of good friend, though the teacher had introduced in the
beginning of this meeti ng. There are also many students who didn‟t task well
because the teacher cannot manage the classroom well.
Third meeting, February 21
th
2011 Internet
In the third meeting, the teacher opened the class and motivated the students by giving a simple game. Then, the teacher told the goal of learning that
was to make students are able to express asking and giving opinion in real communication. After that, the teacher asked about the material which had been
studied in the last meeting to refresh the students‟ knowledge. Theme which was taught in this meeting was about face book. First, the
teacher asked the students the information about face book. Then the teacher asked the students to make 6 groups by counting 1 until 6. The students who get
number 1 make a group 1; the students who get number 2 make a group 2; and so on. Every group discussed about the advantages and disadvantages in using face
book. The teacher helped the students who have difficulties in learning speaking, especially in finding appropriate vocabulary.
After discussing about face book, each group had to give opinion by using expression of giving opinion when the teacher asked opinion. The teacher also
asked the students individually to give opinion about face book so that the teacher knew the individual competency. Finally, the teacher explained about the material
that had been discussed and corrected the students‟ mistake in practicing their speaking.
In this meeting, many students have enthusiasm in learning speaking because the topic is very familiar to them. Some students are confident in telling
their opinion but they are lack of vocabulary, so it took many times for discussion.
c. Observation
Observation is conducted by the collaborator, as the observer, to note the stud
ents‟ activity during learning and teaching process using observation form. The result of the observation in cycle I can be seen in the table below:
Table 4.1 The Percentage of Students’ Activity in Learning Speaking Cycle I
No. Students’ activity
1
st
Meeting 2
nd
Meeting 3
rd
Meeting Average
1. Come on time
30 88.23
32 88.88
34 94.4
90.5 2.
Interesting in learning speaking
16 47.06
19 52.8
24 66.66
55.51 3.
Preparing media and source for learning
10 29.41
14 38.88
18 50
39.43 4.
Paying attention to the teacher
18 52.94
26 72.22
29 80.56
68.57 5.
Answering the teacher‟s question
21 61.76
20 55.55
27 75
64.1 6.
Responding the teacher‟s question
with enthusiasm 15
44.1 16
44.44 20
55.55 48.03
7. Doing the task well
19 55.88
16 44.44
23 63.39
54.57 8.
Learning speaking well
29 85.29
21 58.33
30 83.33
75.65 9.
Not giving up in answering question
13 38.23
15 41.66
19 52.8
44.23 34
36 36
60.06
Note: In the 1
st
meeting, there are 3 students who were absent and a student who was sick. In the second meeting, there were two students who were absent
In the third meeting, there were two students who were absent
Based on the table above, the percentage average of students who come on time is about 90.5 . It means that most of the students had been in the class
when the teacher came in. It shows that the there is no significant improvement in this activity because the percentage is little bit higher than in the preliminary