Researcher’s Role in the Research

The organized planning will be formed into lesson plan based on the syllabus used. Then, the lesson plan will be implemented in the third grade students of Science Class at SMA Fatahillah Jakarta. The researcher also prepared the post- test 1 to collect the data of cycle 1. The purpose of post-test 1 was to know whether there are some improvements on the students’ score achievement from the pretest to post-test or it was not. b. Acting Phase In the acting phase all of what had been planned in the previous phase was conducted in the real action. The deeper concentration of the issue of the research also began here. In the first meeting the researcher gave pre- test to know students’ achievement in reading discussion text. Then in the next meeting, students’ problems were analyzed and tried to be solved by using the determined strategy, Students Team Achievement Division Technique, in teaching reading of discussion text. The researcher took the action phase during two weeks within two cycles in which each cycle consists of three meetings in action. c. Observing Phase In this phase, writer carried out observation toward implementation of the action using direct monitoring by seeing the action. The observer notice and note all of the activities which are found during the teaching and learning process, such as: students’ response, teacher performance, class situation, students’ participation and achievement. Observer also collected the data derived from post-test. The purpose of this phase was to know the changes made by the implementation of the action toward the subject of the research. d. Reflecting Phase In reflecting phase, the researcher reflects and review the result of the action based on the data that have been gathered from the previous phase. In the other word, the purpose of this phase is to evaluate students’ progress in their understanding of reading discussion text after taught by using Students Team