CYCLE II The Implementation of Classroom Action Research
retell the story well and confidently although sometimes they stuck in some words, but it was a good progress for them.
In the first meeting, the English teacher saw that there was a progress in students’ reading, their reading comprehension pretty good; they could understand
what did the passage talk about and could answer some question well. In the second meeting, the writer and the English teacher realized that the
students’ grammar especially Simple Past Tense, reading, writing, and speaking skills were good enough. They could understand the forms positive, negative, and
interrogative and usage of the Simple Past Tense well. For example, usually before the lesson started, the writer always asked them “what did you do last
n ight?”, and in this meeting they could answer correctly like “I studied English”,
students B answered “I cooked with my mother”, and so on. Their reading
comprehension is also good, they had no difficulty to determine the main idea and supporting idea, they also understand what the story talked about. In speaking,
they did it well enough because of the discussion activity regularly. One problem in speaking was pronunciation, the students just need more practice to make it
better. After teaching and learning process have finished, the observer gave them
to posttest 2 exactly on the second action of the cycle II it is to know whether the students’ achievement in cycle II was improved or not. Based on the result of
posttest II, it showed the students who passed the KKM in cycle II were 29 students or 85.29. It concluded there were improvements in their understanding
of the Simple Past Tense when the technique was conducted by the teacher.