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students wanted to work with their closed friends in the class
activity. their group in joining reading class by
using NHT Technique.
The revisions of the problems that happened in Cycle 1 one were expected to solve the matters and could make the Cycle 2 better and got the success criteria of the research.
4.2 The Result of the Action in Cycle 2
This sub chapter presents the result of the action in Cycle 2. They include the implementation of action in Cycle 2, the result of observations in Cycle 2, the results of the
students’ reading comprehension test in Cycle 2, and the results of reflection in Cycle 2. Those aspects will be explained in the following section
4.2.1 The Implementation of the Action in Cycle 2
The implementation of the action in Cycle 2 was done in 3 meeting. At that time, the researcher was the teacher both in first meeting and second meeting of Cycle 2, while the
observer of the first meeting and second meeting of Cycle 2 was the English teacher of class VIII C. Actually, the researcher wanted to change the position in implementing the action.
The researcher wanted to become the observer of the research. Unfortunately, the English teacher did not want to teach the students by using NHT technique. She rejected it because
she felt shy to teach English in front of the researcher. Besides, she said that she knew the students very well, so it would be easy for her to observe the students’ active participation.
The first meeting and the second meeting were conducted to implement the actions of teaching reading comprehension by using Numbered Heads Together NHT technique.
Besides, the third meeting was done for reading comprehension test in Cycle 2. The schedule of the action in cycle 2 will be presented in the following table.
Table 4.6 Schedule of the Implementation of the Action in Cycle 2
No. Date
Activities 1.
April, 21
th
, 2015 Meeting 1 Cycle 2
2. April, 24
th
, 2015 Meeting 2 Cycle 2
3. April, 28
th
, 2015 Reading Test Cycle 2
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th
, 2015 at 10.15 - 11.45 a.m. The material of this meeting was provided in the lesson plan in Cycle 2 of
Meeting 1 see Appendix F.
The duration of the lesson was still same as the previous action. It was about 2x 40 minutes
The teacher gave the material about narrative text entitled “The Birds and the Hunter”. At that time, the teacher did not give the example of narrative text to the students.
So, the researcher teacher gave one text for them. The lesson was begun by greeting the students and checking their attendance list. There were 2 students who were absent without
any information. They were FM and MSTF. After that, the teacher delivered some leading questions related to the story of “The Birds and the Hunter”. This was also a new story for
them. So, it made them felt curious and wanted to know about it. Stating the objective of the lesson was also done by the teacher after delivering the leading questions. Then, the teacher
started reviewing the steps of NHT technique. It was used to help the students remember about the procedures of NHT technique. After that, the teacher gave the students a chance to
make groups of five. In the next step, the teacher assigned a number to each student in the groups and asked them to put it on their heads. The students were free to choose what
number they were going to have. When the students were ready to go to the next step, the teacher distributed the text entitled “The Birds and the Hunter”. As usual, the teacher asked
all of the students to read the text. In that occasion, every group brought 2 or more dictionaries. Thus, most of the students were enthusiast to use their dictionaries in
understanding the words meaning. The teacher continued the step by posing the open ended questions. At that time, the teacher also delivered the questions orally, but the printed
question had already distributed to the students in order to avoid their confusion while the teacher posing the questions. Then, the teacher gave 5-8 seconds for the thinking time. The
teacher used the hammer as the signal when the time was up. After the thinking time, the students wrote hisher own answer on hisher own sheet. There were some students were
serious in writing down their answer. Meanwhile, some of them did not write anything on their sheets. In the next step, the teacher asked the students to put heads together. In that
occasion, the students stand up, shared their ideas, and confirmed their final answer. Then, the teacher called out the number of the students at random. The selected students stand up
and to be ready to state their answers. After the selected students answered the questions, the teacher guided the students to discuss it with the class. Therefore, everybody got the same
chance to give their opinion about their friends’ performance. In the closure time, the teacher
50 also asked the students about their difficulties in doing the task given. At that time, the
teacher tried to motivate them to read more stories in order to improve their reading ability. The lesson was closed by guiding the students to make conclusion about the material taught.
The second meeting of Cycle 2 was done on April, 24
th
, 2015. It was conducted based on Lesson Plan 2 of Cycle 2
see Appendix G. The reading text entitled “The Lion and the
Hare” was used in this research to teach reading comprehension by using NHT technique. The implementation of the action in meeting 2 was quite the same with the previous meeting.
The English teacher was still the observer and the researcher taught the students. At that time, the teacher started the lesson by greeting and checking the students’ attendance. In that
occasion, MSTF was absent again. He did not send any information to the school. After that, the teacher delivered leading question related to the text and also stated the objective of the
lesson. For the main activity, the teacher reviewed the steps of applying NHT technique. At that
time, most of the students remember about the steps. So it did not take longer time to continue the next step. Then, the students made their own groups. There were 5 groups
consist of 5 members, and there was 1 group consist of 4 members because MSTF was absent. After that, the teacher assigned the numbers to the students and asked them to put it
on their heads. When the students were ready with their heads number, the teacher distributed the text entitled”The Lion and the Hare”. It was also the first time for them to read the story
of “The lion and the Hare”. The students read the text enthusiastically. In that occasion every group brought 3 or more dictionaries. The teacher started to pose the open ended question. As
usual, the printed questions were given to the students. Thinking time was also done after posing the questions. The students had to think about the answer around 5-8 seconds. After
that, the teacher asked the students to write the answer on hisher own sheet. Not so long after that, the teacher asked the students to put heads together. The students stand up to share and
confirm their final answer. In the next step, the teacher called out the number of the students randomly. As usual, for those who were called by the teacher, they had to stand up and be
ready to state their group’s answer. Next, the selected students answered the questions one by one. Everybody got a chance to get a point. After that, the teacher guided the students to
confirm the answer with the class. In closure time, the students could ask everything related to their difficulties while doing
the exercises. It was found that, the students felt easier in doing the exercises by using NHT technique rather than doing the exercises individually. The class was ended by making
conclusion and parting.
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4.2.2 The result of observation in Cycle 2
