Determining the Actions to Solve the Problems

1. The First Meeting

In the first meeting which was held on Tuesday 18 th March, the researcher opened the lesson with praying and checked students’ attendance. He prepared a descriptive text entitled “My house”. Then he asked the students to read the text. Then he said “What is the text about?” and the students answered “House”. He also asked the students about the social purpose, the generic structure and language features of descriptive texts. However, many students did not know about that. Therefore, the researcher explained about it. It can be seen in the following field note below. Firstly, the researcher asked the students about the descriptive texts including the social purpose, the generic structure and language feature. The teacher walked around and waited for any student who could answer it. However, no one in the class could answer it correctly and most of them just kept silent. FN.04, March 18 th 2014 Then, the researcher introduced the steps of writing: planning, drafting, editing and final version because he intended to improve students’ ability in writing. He asked the students to follow those steps when they tried to write any kind of texts especially descriptive texts. If they followed the steps, they would be easier in making a good text. After teaching about the steps of writing, the researcher asked the students to pay attention to a new way of learning. It is using mind mapping. The researcher asked them whether they knew about it or not. The 56 researcher asked “Kalian pernah mendengar Mind Mapping sebelumnya? Atau pernah menggunakan teknik tersebut? “Have you all heard about Mind Mapping? Or have you used it before”. In fact, all of them never heard and never used it before. In fact, the students were a bit confused firstly because that was their first time knowing this technique. However, they were curious about mind mapping because the pictures and colors made them interested and paid attention to the learning process. It can be described in the following field note. The researcher asked the students about the mind mapping technique. In fact, that was the first time for them knowing the technique. However, when the researcher started to introduce them with the mind mapping about a house, the students seemed curious and interested about that. Then, some students said that they were interested with the pictures and colors made by the researcher because they liked drawing. Then, he said that all students would start to draw in the next meeting. FN.04, March 18 th 2014 ____________________________________________________________ During the introducing of mind mapping in the class, it showed that many students were interested in mind mapping. Even one of the students said “Wah kalo belajarnya sambil gambar kayak gini jadi gak ngantuk kak” “If we study while drawing like this, I will not get sleepy, Sir”. The researcher asked “Lha kok bisa?”“Why?”. Then he answered “Karena aku suka gambar kak.” “It is because I like drawing, Sir”. In fact some students also said about that. Thus, it became good motivation for the researcher to teach because many students responded it well and they started to like this technique. 57