The explanations of the figure above were presented more clearly as the following:
3.1.1 Cycle I
Planning
Finding an institution to do an action (Eighth students of SMPN I Rejotangan).
Asking permission to the headmaster and English teacher to carry out the research there.
Designing a well-prepared plan (lesson plan and test).
Acting
First Activity (Pre-test)
Giving a pre-test to the students.
Second Activity (Treatment 1)

The researcher

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.
Students give their attention.
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 who know, then answer the question orally then check their answer and attention the teacher’s explanation.
The researcher asks the students to sort there team on the basis of their understanding of the topic from very good understanding (A students) to poor understanding (E students).
Students rank their members on the basis of their understanding.
After that, the researcher regroups all of the teams and asks them to seat all of the A students in one area of the room, B students in another area, etc.
Students regroup their selves.
The researcher gives out the test version question to each student and instructs them to individually answer the questions under formal test conditions.
Students answer the question orally.
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 point’s distribution could be 5, 4, 4, 4, 1, if three students have same score).
Students give their attention and rank their scores.
The researcher gives feedback for the students’ activity within teams, so that the researcher can give evaluation for their speaking activity.
Students give attention and improve their speaking ability.
Third Activity

The researcher

Students

The researcher plays the rule once more.
Students do the rule once more with increase attention.
The researcher gives a cycle I test to check the students’ progress.
Students do the cycle I test.
Monitoring
Collecting and analyzing the result of the action. Its purpose was to know to what extent the result of the action reached the objectives.
Reflection
Finding out the progress from the first activity to the last activity.
3.1.2 Cycle II
Planning
Designing a well-prepared plan (lesson plan and test).
Acting
Fourth Activity (Treatment 2)

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.
Students give their attention.
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 who know, then answer the question orally then check their answer and attention the teacher’s explanation.
The researcher asks the students to sort there team on the basis of their understanding of the topic from very good understanding (A students) to poor understanding (E students).
Students rank their members on the basis of their understanding.
After that, the researcher regroups all of the teams and asks them to seat all of the A students in one area of the room, B students in another area, etc.
Students regroup their selves.
The researcher give out the test version question to each student and instructs them to individually answer the questions under formal test conditions.
Students answer the question orally.
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 point’s distribution could be 5, 4, 4, 4, 1, if three students have same score).
Students give their attention and rank their scores.
Third Activity

The writer

Students

The researcher plays the rule once more.
Students do the rule once more with increase attention.
The researcher give a cycle II test to check the students’ progress.
Students do the cycle II test.
Monitoring
Collecting and analyzing the result of the action. Its purpose was to know to what extent the result of the action reached the objectives.
Reflection
Finding out the progress from the first activity to the last activity.
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 Team- Game- 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 cycle’s step. The result of the analysis from next cycle had matched the criteria of success, the action was finished.
3.3 Researcher Attendance
The researcher needs to conduct this class action research in order to increases the eighth students’ ability in speaking. The researcher found the students’ difficulty in pronouncing the word correctly and their fluency in speaking English is decrease. In this class action research, the researcher acts as a practitioner and observer. In order to making success this activity, 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 2×45 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 people’s 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
Questionnaire is a form containing a set of questions, especially one addressed to a statistically significant number of subjects as a way of gathering information for a survey The American Heritage (2003).
The researcher distributed questionnaire to the students at preliminary study. It was enabled to know the students’ difficulties in learning English skills especially mastery speaking. The result was enabled to find out the suitable strategy to solve the problem in class.
3.5.3Observation Sheets
Observation sheets were used to see and the note the real activities proceeded in the classroom. There were two sheets of observation sheets used in this study. The first set was for the teacher and the second one was for the students. The observation sheets contained some important steps that the teacher and students had to do during the implementation speaking class through Team- Game- Tournament in teaching learning process.
3.5.4Test
Test is a series of questions, problems or physical responses design to determine knowledge, intelligence, or ability (The American Heritage: 2003). The tests use in this study was pre-test test and post-test. The pre-test was use in the preliminary study to find out information dealing with the students’ speaking ability. To obtain data about the students’ progress in learning speaking after the strategy apply, the researcher conducted an evaluation by administering a post-test to the students individually at the end of each cycle.
3.5.5Documentation
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 subject’s mean score. The formulation will be described as follow:
Individual Degree of Score = Sum of Score Earned x 100
Maximum Score
Subject Mean Score = Sum of Students’ 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.
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