Classroom Action Research
Classroom Action Research
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
school is the ability to use English for communication in daily life. It means
that the objective of English teaching is the ability to speak English fluently.
But in reality, there are so many students are not able to speak English well.
Commonly, they only have capability in grammar, reading or writing. It is
because English is not spoken in society, so the accuracy and fluency to
speak English is difficult for the students. Moreover, the use of conventional
teaching techniques which only use the same way for each section of
teaching English becomes the second reason of the problem in speaking
English. Setiyadi (2006: 21) states that speaking is the productive skill in the
oral mode. It likes the other skills, is more complicated that it seems at first
and involves more than pronouncing words.
Based on the statements above, the researcher knows that the fluency in
speaking becomes the problem in learning English. Here, the using of
appropriate techniques in teaching and learning English is one of the ways to
solve the problem. It is needed in order to make the students be motivated in
speaking English in the classroom and out of classroom. There are many
techniques to make English teaching especially speaking is fun, interesting
and active. So the students are encouraged to expose themselves to speak
English. One of the techniques which can be used in English speaking is
cooperative learning technique, so the teachers have to analyze the most
appropriate technique to teach English in their class. Cooperative learning
has so many techniques which can be a good alternative to be applied in
teaching English and it can make an interesting teaching and learning for the
students.
Based on the backgrounds above, the researcher will conduct a study in the
form of Classroom Action Research entitled Enhancing the Eighth Students
Ability in Speaking through Team-Game-Tournament of Cooperative Learning
Technique at SMP Negeri 1 Rejotangan in Academic Year 2013/2014.
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
Hypothesis
This chapter presents some related literatures that support this class
action research. It includes English curriculum for SMP, learning English,
speaking, cooperative learning and Team- Game- Tournament.
2.1
called KTSP 2006. The objective of KTSP namely KKM, it does include the
indicator of competence that use for determining the minimum score of
passing grade in every school. As stated in the 2006 curriculum that every
school has full authority and responsibility for determining the subject matter
and learning instruction in line with the vision, mission, purpose, condition
and characteristic of every school.
According to 2006 English curriculum: Pengembangan kemampuan
siswa dalam berbahasa Inggris yaitu dengan memiliki empat ketrampilan
dalam berbahasa Inggris (speaking, listening, reading, writing) yang
bertujuan untuk mengembangkan kompetensi berkomunikasi secara lisan
secara terbatas untuk mengiringi tindakan (language accompanying action).
The 2006 curriculum based on Depdiknas 2006 targets the students to be
able to understand various types of texts, i.e. descriptive, procedure, recount,
narrative and report. Those kinds of text types have to be mastered by the
students in four skills; they are listening, speaking, reading and writing. The
standard competence especially in speaking the students should be
expressing the meaning in written functional text and short essay of
descriptive and procedure to interact with the closest environment. Moreover,
the basic competence in speaking the students must express the meaning
and the steps accurately, fluently and acceptably in very simple short essay
related to the closest environment.
2.2
Learning English
Learning English has an essential point in order to make the students
2.2.1
Definition of Learning
The formal definition of learning describes the process as a relatively
Speaking
This section focuses in some important aspects of speaking as one of
the skills in learning English involves the definition of speaking and the
importance of speaking.
2.3.1
Definition of Speaking
Of all the four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing), speaking
seems intuitively the most important: people who know a language are
referred to as speakers of that language, as if speaking included all other
kinds of knowing; and many if not most foreign language learners are
primarily interested in learning to speak (Paulo, 2010:120). Moreover, (Shrouf
in Brown, 1994; Burns & Joyce, 1997) defines that speaking is an interactive
process of constructing meaning that involves producing and receiving and
processing information. It means that speaking is a crucial part of language
and it became a communicative skill for the students.
2.3.2
Teaching Speaking
Hornby (1995: 37) quoted that teaching means giving the instruction to (a
person): give a person (knowledge, skill etc). While speaking means to make
use of words in an ordinary voice, so teaching speaking is giving instruction
to a person in order to communicate. Many students equate being able to
speak a language as knowing the language therefore view learning the
language as learning how to speak the language.
2.4
Cooperative Learning
This section focuses in some important aspects of cooperative
learning that includes the nature of cooperative learning and the five key
elements of cooperative learning; positive interdependence, face to face
interaction, individual and group accountability, interpersonal small- group
skill and group processing.
2.4.1
As humans we are social animals and have an inherent social nature. It is not
in our nature to life alone (Johnson and Johnson, 1975: 1). Based on the
statement above we can conclude that make a group is needed in our life. It
seems for the students that they need to learning together through group
work. Group work is a generic term covering a multiplicity of techniques in
which two or more students are assigned a task that involves collaboration
and self initiated language (Brown, 2001: 177). Group work is usually called
cooperative learning. (Kessler, 1992: 8) states that cooperative learning is
group learning activity organized so that learning is dependent on the social
structured exchange of information between learners in group and in which
each learner is held accountable for his or her own learning and is motivated
to increase the learning of other. It means that cooperative learning can
increase the spirit of the students to study with their friends in group.
2.4.2
Interpersonal and Small- Group Skills also called Collaborative Skills include
such group interaction skills as leadership, decision- making, trust- building,
communication and conflict- management skills. The purpose of learning
together in group work is that they can make collaboration of the skills with
their friends in the group and share those all collaborative skills.
2.4.2.5
Group Processing
Group Processing occurs when the students discuss their progress in reaching
goals and analyze their working relationship within the group. Group
processing exist when group members discuss how well they are achieving
their goals and maintaining effective working relationship. The effective
working relationship shows and describes what member actions are helpful
and not helpful.
2.5
practices are carried out. It can be said that an action research is a learning
by doing action a group of people or person (researcher), identifies a
problem, does something to resolve it, sees how successful the efforts which
has been made, and if the result is not satisfying, that group or that person
will try again the efforts in the next action.
Applying the principle of an action research design, the researcher
took the model of an action research proposed by Kemmis and Mc.Taggart
model Aqib (2006: 23). The action research consists of four main steps,
namely planning, acting, observing, and reflecting in which the cycle is shown
in figure 3.1.
The explanations of the figure above were presented more clearly as the
following:
3.1.1 Cycle I
Planning
Acting
Students
The researcher
distributes the
practice version of
the test to each
student and instruct
them to answer the
question orally and
cooperatively as a
team, ensuring that
all team members
understand how
each answer was
obtained the
intension.
The researcher
evaluates and
corrects the
students answer
then displayed a
copy of the answer
on the data projector
and get each team to
check their answer
and resolve any
issues with their
answer.
Students regroup
their selves.
The researcher
evaluates and
corrects then
displays a copy of
the answer on the
data projector and
get each student to
mark their answers
and then to rank
themselves amongst
the group of students
they are group with.
That is, the A
students will rank
themselves from
best to worst score.
The students with
best score is given a
score of 5 points
while the students
with the lowest score
is given a score 1
point. Students with
equal scores receive
the same number of
points (e.g. the
points distribution
could be 5, 4, 4, 4, 1,
if three students
have same score).
Students give
attention and
students activity
within teams, so that
the researcher can
give evaluation for
their speaking
activity.
improve their
speaking ability.
Third Activity
The researcher
Students
Students do the
cycle I test.
Monitoring
Reflection
3.1.2 Cycle II
Planning
Acting
The writer
Students
The researcher
distributes the
practice version of
the test to each
student and instructs
them to answer the
question orally and
cooperatively as a
team, ensuring that
all team members
understand how
each answer was
obtained the
intension.
The researcher
evaluates and
corrects the
students answer
then displays a copy
of the answer on the
data projector and
get each team to
check their answer
and resolve any
issues with their
answer.
Students regroup
their selves.
room, B students in
another area, etc.
The researcher give
out the test version
question to each
student and instructs
them to individually
answer the questions
under formal test
conditions.
The researcher
evaluates and
corrects then
displays a copy of
the answer on the
data projector and
got each student to
mark their answers
and then to rank
themselves amongst
the group of students
they are group with.
That is, the A
students will rank
themselves from
best to worst score.
The students with
best score is given a
score of 5 points
while the students
with the lowest score
is given a score 1
point. Students with
equal scores
received the same
number of points
(e.g. the points
distribution could be
5, 4, 4, 4, 1, if three
students have same
score).
Third Activity
The writer
Students
Students do the
cycle II test.
Monitoring
Reflection
From the cycles above, the main difference of each cycle is the role of the
teacher in giving the more motivation to the students in speaking. The
researcher motivates the students to do their best within team. The students
give more attention for their team. Then researcher gives another form of
test in cycle 2, so that the students will beyond the previous failure in the
cycle 1 from this class action research.
3.2 Research Procedure
The procedure of this classroom action research will be conducted in cycle
covering four steps of activities, namely the planning, acting, monitoring and
reflecting.
a. Planning
Before conducting the action, observation is done to find out the
condition of the student performance in English teaching learning process.
The researcher consulted her thesis advisor to find information wether the
situation of the eighth year students, which the researcher found while she
did the preliminary study, could improved students speaking ability in
English teaching learning process through Team- Game- Tournament.
b. Acting
In this study, the researcher acted as the practitioner who
implemented the proposed strategy by referring to the activities done in
class. The study was conducted in two meetings in which each meeting had a
different focus. The first meeting was focused on introducing teaching with
Team- Game- Tournament. In the step, the researcher divided the class into
teams of four or five. A class of 40 would have 9 teams of 5. The second
meeting was focused on the teaching and learning process using TeamGame- Tournament.
c. Monitoring
Monitoring is the process of recording and collecting data about any
aspect which happened during the implementation of the action. This active
is done by the observer. In conducting the observation, the observer is
equipped with observation sheet and field notes to record the required data.
Thus, the data of this research were obtained from the result of the
observation and interview.
d. Reflection
During the process using Team- Game- Tournament, the researcher got data.
The researcher tried to criticize the strengths and weaknesses of her
procedure in implementing the research plan. After the analyzing of data, she
made the reflection from the action in cycle 1, based on observation sheets,
to decide and plan the next cycles step. The result of the analysis from next
cycle had matched the criteria of success, the action was finished.
the researcher also collaborates with the English teacher and the head
master of SMPN 1 Rejotangan.
3.4 Setting and Subject of the Study
Each person or participant in the study was considered as a subject (Brown,
1993: 48). The subjects of the study of this research were the eighth students
of SMPN 01 Rejotangan in academic year of 2013 2014. The school is in the
Jl. Raya Kandung- Tanen Rejotangan 66293 and it leads by the head master
that is Bpk. Haidar Alwi Zamzamy, M.Pd.
This school has 24 classes from the seven classes up to nine classes. As the
sample, the researcher took the eighth students of SMPN 01 Rejotangan. In
the eighth grade class, English was taught two times a week. The time was
divided 245 minutes twice a week.
The school was chosen because it has applied the School Based Curriculum
2006 which is suitable with the implementation one of the strategies from
cooperative learning that is Team- Game- Tournament. The setting is chosen
because based on the preliminary study conduct by the researcher, it was
found that the students have low score and difficulties to mastery the
speaking ability. As shown on the students score list, this score is only on the
average of less than 75. The passing grade is 75 in the students score.
3.5 Data Collection Method
Data collection method is manner, used by researcher in collecting the data.
In this research writer used interview, questionnaire, observation sheets, test
and documentation. The following are the explanation of each method that is
used in this class action research.
3.5.1 Interview
Interviewing is a technique that primarily used to gain and
understanding of the underlying reasons and motivations for peoples
attitudes, preferences, or behavior (Thames Valley University). In this
research the researcher used the free-guided interview. It is an interview in
which the interviewer uses a set of questions and each question, is developed
to gain detail information.
The interview was conducted at preliminary study. At the preliminary study,
an informal was done to find out what kind of teaching and learning process
in English speaking were faced by English teacher. So the researcher found
the most appropriate technique or strategy in this class action research.
3.5.2
Questionnaire
3.5.5 Documentation
American Heritage (2003) states that documentation is act or instance of the
supplying of documents or supporting references or records. The researcher
print in some information such as: attendance list of the students in the
classroom and the score list.
3.6 Data Analysis
Data analysis is an important aspect of the reflectivity of action
research. The reflecting steps use to analyzing whether the action success or
failed. The whole of action research is that analyzing the data, interpreting it,
and developing theories about what it means are constantly feedback into
practice Burn (1999:155). The researcher used descriptive analysis and score
analysis in analyze the action research data.
The descriptive analysis was used to analyze the data of interview,
observation and questionnaire. The data gained through field interview were
analyses and report descriptively. While the data collect through interview,
questionnaire and documentation were reported in the form of table, in order
to make it easier to compare the result and analyses descriptively.
The score analysis was used to analyze the students speaking ability
after implementing the plan. The score analysis consists of preparing the
instrument of scoring, the tabulation of the data and the summarizing of the
data (Arikunto,1993: 205). The writer prepared the students score list. It
contains three score data: they are score of preliminary study, score of cycle
I, and score of cycle II. This step calculated the individual degree of score and
subjects mean score. The formulation will be described as follow:
Individual Degree of Score
100
Maximum Score
Subject Mean Score
x 100
Sum of Students
Percentage Gain Students
Gain Students
x 100%
Total of Students
The conclusion of the data is whether the research could improve the
students ability in speaking or not. It described that the research categories
in success if (1) the students post- test mean score on speaking ability is
improved not less than 75 and no students got the score under 75; and (2)
75% of the students test in cycle I until cycle II test go up.