class must get 70 score to fulfill the Minimum Mastery Criterion- Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal KKM in English lesson.
B. The Design of the Study
The design of this study is classroom action research. The study of classroom action research indicates as a process in which teachers investigate
teaching and learning to improve students’ learning problems.
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To find out students’ learning problem, Mils stated that “action research is any systematic
inquiry conducted by teacher researcher, principals, school counselors or other stakeholder in the teaching learning environment to gather information about
how their particular school operate, how they teach, and how well their students learn.
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That is why action research is different from other more conventional or traditional types of research; it focused on individual or small
group professional practice. Action research tries to take an action and effect positive educational change in the specific school environment that was
studied. The classroom action research design employed in this study was
collaborative action research. In conducting the research, the researcher was assisted by English teacher of SMP Bakti Mulya 400 Jakarta. In this study, the
writer has some roles. She becomes the practitioner who taught reading descriptive text. Besides, she makes a lesson plan and assessment in each final
cycle. Furthermore, the writer also collect and analyzes data then reporting the result of study. Whereas, the collaborator called the English teacher becomes
the observer who observed the implementation of the action.
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www.teachingenglish.org.ukthinkmethodologyaction-research.html
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Geoffrey E. Mills, Action Research: a Guide For the Teacher Researcher, 2
nd
ed. Ohio: Prentice Hall, 2003, p.5.
The writer uses classroom action research model proposed by Kurt Lewin. It consists of two cycles in which each cycle contains four phases;
planning, acting, observing, and reflecting.
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The figure can be seen below:
Cycle I
Planning Acting
Observing Reflecting
Acting Planning
Observing Reflecting
Cycle II
Figure 3.1 Kurt Lewin Design
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Wijaya Kusumah dan Dedi Dwitagama, Mengenal Penelitian Tindakan Kelas, Jakarta: Indeks, 2009, p.20.
C. The Procedure of the Study
Figure 3.2 Design of Research Cycles Adopted from Kurt Lewin Design
Analysis and findings
Analysis : Analyzing the result of preliminary study Finding
: Result of students’ reading comprehension of descriptive text was still low. Causes :
1. The students have difficulty to understand of meaning passage.
2. The students were not actively involved in reading class.
Preliminary Study
Interviewing the English teacher, giving questionnaire and pretest to the students in the second year of SMP
Bakti Mulya 400 Jakarta
.
Planning
1. Designing lesson plan.
2. Preparing observation form.
3. Preparing the material and media.
4. Setting the criteria of succses
Acting
Conducting the lesson plan
Observation
Observing the
teaching learning
condition.
Reflecting
1. Evaluating teaching and learning
process. 2.
Analyzing collected data. 3.
Discussing with English teacher.
Cycle 1
Planning
1. Identifying the problem in cycle I.
2. Revising lesson planning.
3. Preparing observation form and
instrument.
Reflecting
1. Evaluating teaching learning
process in cycle II. 2.
Analyzing collected data. 3.
Discussing with English teacher.
Action
Conducting the revision of lesson plan.
Observation
Observing the teaching learning process.
Cycle II
