which was held every Wednesday at 12.20-13.00 p.m. during the actions implemented. The schedules of the actions could be presented in the following table below:
Table 3.1 Schedule of Action in Cycle I No
Cycle Day, Date
Time Text -Theme
1. I
Saturday, 10
th
May 2014 08.30 – 10-05 a.m
Descriptive- Family
2. I
Saturday, 17
th
May 2014 08.30
– 10-05 a.m
3. I
Wednesday, 21
th
May 2014
12.20-13.00 p.m. 4.
1 Thursday,
22
th
May 2014
10.45- 12.20 p.m.
The role as the English teacher to implement the action was taken during the research going. Then, the research participant worked collaboratively in order to
observe and to record the actions during the teaching learning writing process happened. In this case, the collaborators would observe the teaching learning writing process
related to the students‟ enthusiasm, confidence, and activeness in the class and the class atmosphere, obstacle etc. The observation checklist was used to put marks on the
aspects and activities done using the photographs. The field notes are written based on the gained data.
4. Reflections
After the action was done, some reflections in using photographs were done by considering the achievement
of the students‟ writing performance. Based on the result
of cycle 1, the next cycle was considered to be conducted to make some significant improvement.
5. Revised Plans
Considering the result of cycle 1, the actions were refined. Some mistakes and weakness of the previous actions were revised. The next cycle was planned by preparing
course grid, lesson planning and hand-out for three meetings. The actions were: a.
using more photographs that represent some feasible adjectives used. b.
drilling grammar especially the simple present tense and sentence patterns used.
c. maximizing the pair and group work.
d. giving rewards to the active students.
e. giving more feedback written and oral to the students related to their
writing performance. In this cycle, the actions focused on how to use photographs in certain activities
which motivated the stude nts‟ active participation in group works even created fun
competitive at the classrooms.
6. Actions and Observations
In this phase, photographs were involved in three meetings. The collaborators would observe the teaching learning writing process and the obstacle which might be
appeared. They used the observation checklist too and wrote this gained data into the field notes. As there were some national holidays in Thursday class too in cycle 2 , the
