| dc.description.abstract | The result of the students‟ structure achievement test in cycle I showed that
percentage of the students who got score ≥ 70 was 74.2% and there was 45.7% of the
students who actively participated in the teaching learning process in meeting 1 and
60% in meeting 2. During the teaching learning process, the students were not active.
When the teacher asked them to discuss the answers of the posed questions, most of
them just kept silent and some of them were talking each other not about the lesson.
Then, they just waited and followed their friends‟ answers without understanding the
posed questions. It was because most of them did not really comprehend about the
materials mainly in applying the Simple Past Tense to answer the posed questions. In
conclusion, the actions in cycle I was not successful yet. Therefore, the actions were
continued to cycle II by revising some necessary aspects related to the use of the
technique in the teaching learning process of structure in cycle I.
In cycle II, the revision was done in applying the Numbered Head Together
technique. When the students were putting their head together, the teacher asked the
high achiever students in each group to help their group members comprehending
about the materials including the use of the main verb (V2) and the auxiliary be (was,
were) in the sentences. After the students sharing their group‟s answers, the teacher
also gave more explanations about the way how to construct the right Simple Past
Tense sentences and the examples gotten from the narrative text. Thus, the result of
the students‟ structure achievement test in cycle II showed that the percentage of the
students who got ≥ 70 was 80%. It improved from the result of cycle I that the
percentage of the students who got ≥ 70 was only 74.2%. Besides, there was also an
improvement on the percentage of the students‟ active participation. It improved from
45.7% in meeting 1 and 60% in meeting 2 in cycle I to 77.1% in meeting 1 and
82.2% in meeting 2 in cycle II. It means that both the students‟ structure achievement
test and their active participation in the teaching learning process improved in cycle II
and achieved the criteria of success in this research. Therefore, the actions were
stopped.
Based on the results above, it showed that the use of Numbered Head Together
technique could improve the students‟ active participation and their structure
achievement of Simple Past Tense at SMAN Yosowilangun, Lumajang. Therefore, it
is suggested to the English teacher to apply Numbered Head Together technique in
teaching structure or in different teaching learning activities. | en_US |
