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4.1.3 The Third Cycle The Post Test
In general, the third cycle steps conducted was the same as the previous cycles. Based on the reflection of the second cycle, the teaching conducted better. In the
last cycle, the writer prepared the questionnaire to collect data from the students about teaching learning process. He conducted such steps:
1 The writer handed out the written text entitled “The Kakashi’s story part
3 to the students. 2
The writer explained what the comic is about. He also help them to give a bit portrayal about the synopsis of story
3 The writer had prepared explanation of the difficulty words on the sheet
behind the comic. 4
He asked students’ find out amusing side of the story their selves. 5
The writer asked the students to read it for 15 minutes. 6
The writer asked them to tell him what the story is about. 7
Then, the students and I discussed the generic structure of the text. 8
The writer asked them to understand the content of the text discussed. 9
the students were asked to write narrative text individually 10
As a test, the students produced the narrative text based on the comic they read before.
4.2 The Analysis of the Cycles
Here, the analysis of each activity:
4.2.1 The Analysis of the Pre-test
63 In starting the data collection, the writer conducted Pre-test. The purpose
of this test was to identify the student’ ability in writing a narrative text. Here, the English teacher of the class as the collaborator helped to monitor the students.
The pre-test was conducted on Tuesday, March 10, 2009. In this test, the students had to write a narrative text based on the topic given by. The results of
the students’ achievement in pre test can be seen in appendix 2.
The average of the student’ test results = The total percentage The number of the students
= 2.048 34
= 60.23
The average of the students’ result in the pre-test was 60.23. According to the criterion of the Department of Education and Culture Dekdikbud, the
students’ achievement result above was lower than the criterion that has been stipulated. The writer concluded that the students had not understood narrative
text yet. Thus, the use of treatments in each cycle was necessary to improve the students’ ability in writing.
4.2.3 The Analysis of the First Cycle
The first cycle consisted of two meetings. It was conducted on February 13 and 17 2009. The focus of the treatment was to eliminate the students’
difficulties in implementing the structure of narrative text in their writing. The
64 process of teaching and learning during the treatment was represented in the
teaching-learning stages. The stages of the cycle were: Developing the context, Modeling of the text, Joint Construction of the text and Independent Construction
of the text. Those linking stages informed the classroom activities by showing the process of learning this text. The results of the students’ writing in the first cycle
can be seen in appendix 3.
The average of the students’ test results= The total of the percentage The number of the students
= 2372 34
= 70 The average achievement of the students in the first cycle was 70 .
According to the criterion provided by the Department of education and Culture Depdikbud, 65 was said to be successful. Therefore, it can be concluded that
the first cycle was successful. Based on the evaluation, there were several students who still made
mistakes in terms of grammar. They still had difficulties constructing sentences in Simple Past Tense form. Thus, the writer conducted the next cycle.
4.2.4 The Analysis of the Second Cycle
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