The Analysis of the Second Cycle

52

4.3. The Analysis of the Second Cycle

The second cycle consisted of two meetings; they were on February 5 and February 9, 2009. In general, the procedure of teaching and learning in this cycle was the same as the previous cycle. It was done through stages. The main focus of the treatment was to eliminate students’ difficulties in constructing sentences in Simple Present Tense. In this activity the writer conveyed teaching and learning process to discuss about Simple Present Tense. In this cycle, the students also performed the real activity about how to make something in front of the class, they also brought the materials they needed and performed the action in front of the class before they wrote the text. The students really enjoyed acting out this activity because they thought the real things could improve their speaking skills. Finally, in the Independent Construction of the Text, the writer asked the students to write a procedure text by retelling their own experience that was performed in front of the class. The results of the students’ achievement in the second cycle can be seen in appendix 4. The average of the students’ test results = The total percentage The number of the students = 2636 34 = 77.53 53 The average of the students’ achievement in the second cycle was 77.53. The treatment in the second activity was successful because more than 85 of the whole students got 65 or more of the achievement, so the writer could continue to the next activity and the amended plan was not necessary. 4.4. The Analysis of the Post‐test After those cycles, the students’ ability in writing procedure text was once again measured by giving the Post‐test. The post‐test was conducted on February 12, 2009. Before doing the Post‐test, the writer reviewed the lesson that the writer had given. The Post ‐ test was the same as the Pre‐test. The results of the students’ achievement in the post test can be seen in appendix 5. The average of the students’ test result = The total percentage The number of the students = 2796 34 = 82.23 From the analysis above, it can be seen that the average achievement of the students’ post-test was 82.23. It can be concluded that the students’ achievement in writing procedure text using real things had significant improvement. To prove this statement, the results of the tests in this action research were compared in the table and can be seen in appendix 6. 54

4.5 The Analysis of the Questionnaire