students consisting of six classes. This school is chosen since it has the curriculum in which the
utilization of ICT has become school mission. The class in which the research conducted is intentionally
chosen to the tenth grade. The writer chooses to do a classroom action research only to the tenth grade
students because he teaches English subject to the tent grade students and the permission given by the
school‟s authorities also taken into consideration.
2. Classroom’s Setting
Picture 3.1 Taken on July 12
th
2012 at 08.15
Picture 3.2 Taken on July 12
th
2012 at 08.15
T he classroom‟s situation is almost the same like another
school in Indonesia in which each class consist of 25 up to 30 students. Each classroom is equipped with a white board, soft
board, air conditioners, cupboard, tables, chairs, in focus projector and so forth.
3. Time of the Research
This research was conducted on 16
th
July up to 31
st
October 2012. It is divided into two steps; preparation steps and cycles‟ steps. Every cycle has several
activities; planning, acting, observing, and reflecting.
Table 3.3 Schedule of the Research
NO Activities
Time July
August September October
1.
Preparation
Arranging research concept
X 2.
Action research
Cycle 1 X
Cycle 2 X
Cycle 3 X
Cycle 4 X
3.
Conducting Interview
X
4. Writing Report
X
4. Action Research Cycles
a General Plan
In the planning phase, the writer tries to identify a problem or issue and develop a plan of action to bring about
improvements in a specific area of the research context. In this phase he had identified issue in the school setting that is the
condition in which students can easily bring gadgets to the classroom such as Smartphone, Tablet computer, and
MusicVideo player. This thing happens albeit the rules strictly made to have students not to bring gadgets to the classroom. In
addition, the students are accustomed to use those gadgets as learning tool. The students use them for searching on the internet
to find the meaning of difficult vocabularies and making draft of writing. They think that writing activity is such a daunting task to
do, some students did not like to write draft on the paper. And some of them are more likely keen on using Smartphone,
Computer tablet and other gadgets to write a draft.
Due to this issue, the writer plans to create and implement a good English learning activity that is integrated with the
