Classroom Action Research: Minimizing The Students Errors in Building Sentences Through Games - UDiNus Repository

CLASSROOMACTION RESEARCH:
MINIMIZING TT{E STUDENTS' ERRORS
II{ BUTLDING SENTENCESTHROUGH GAMES
TIIESIS
Presentedin partial fulfilment of the requirements
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Adhan Bintolo
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FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND LETTERS
DIAN NUSWANTORO TINIYERSITY
SEMARANG
2007

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English Language, Faculty of Languages and Letters, Dian Ntrswantoro
University on September2O,2A07.

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TABLE OF'CONTENTS

PAGEOF TITLE

I

PAGEOF APPROVAL...

ii

MOTTO...

. . . . . . . . .i.i i

DEDICATION..

........iv

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

........v

LISTOF TABLES..

......... vii

TABLEOF CONTENTS......

.......viii

LIST OF FIGURES.
L IS TOFA P P E N D ICES......

.........x i i i

A B S T R A C T ......

.......x i v

CHAPTERI INTRODUCTION..

.......1

1 .1B a ckgr ound
ofthestudy..

......:.

..........1

1.2Statement
of theProblem.
1.3Scope
of theStudy.
1.4Objective
of theStudy..
I .5 Significance
of theStudy.
l.6OrganizationoftheThesis...
CHAPTERII REVIEWOF RELATEDLITERATURE..
2.1ActionResearch.

. ........ 3
......4
. . ...... ....4

..... 5
.........7
. ..... . 7

2.l.lParticipatoryActionResearch.

......7

2.1.2Citical ActionResearch

......7

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2.1.3ClassroomActionResearch
2.1.4hstitutionalActionResearch

............7
. .. . .. .8

2.2 ActionResearch
forTeachers

........ 10

2.3 Aim of Conducting
Classroom
ActionResearch

........ 11

2.4T\e Benefitsof Conducting
Classroom
ActionResearch
.....lz
2.5InstructionalApproachof TeachingEnglish
2.6Viewof W r iting

.... 14
........14

2 . 7S e n t e n c e . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . .1 6

2.7.1Declarativesentence(statement).... .........L7
2.T.Zlnterrogative
(question)..
sentence
2.7.3 Imperative
(command,
sentence
request).
2.7.4Exclamatory
(exclamation)..
sentence
2 . 8E r r o r a n d M i s t a k e . . . . . .

... 17
..... .....17

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2.9.1
Definitions........... ..
...;
2.9.2Characteristics.

.......21

2.9.3Games
in theTeaching
Learning
Process.

......-...23

2.9.4TeachingWritingbyUsingGames.

..........25

2.9.5Advantages.
2.10TheActionHypothesis

.....26
......27

C H A P T E R IIIRESEARCHMETHOD.........

..,.28

3.1Research
Design.

......28

3.2Unitof Analysis

.....29

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3 . 3S o u r c e o f D a t a . . . . .
of DataCollection
3.4Technique
ofDataanalysis....
3.5Technique
lnstrument.
3.6Resemch

..........:.......,...29
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3.6.1Pre-test
3.6.2Firstcycle........
cycle
3.6.3Second
3 . 6 . 4T h i r dc y c l e . . .
3 .7A ctionPlan........

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3 . 7 . 1P r e - t e s t . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.7.2Thefirstcycle..
Cycle.......
3.7.3 TheSecond
Cycle...
3.7.4TheThird
3 .8 In dicator ofSuccess......

...........36
............37

CHAPTERtVDATAANALYSIs......................'......,...
4.1 FirstMeetingActivity
4.2Second
MeetingActivity

..........43

4.3ThirdMeetingActivity

.........44

4.4FourthMeeting
Activity
4.5 Fifth MeetingActivity

............48
.....50

4.6 SixthMeetingActivity
4.7SeventhMeetingActivity
4.8EighthMeetingActivity

.........55
....58

4.9 Ninth MeetingActivity

..57

CHAPTERV CONCLUSIONAND SUGGESTION

..62

5.1Conclusion
.........

.-62

5.2Suggestion......

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BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDICES

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