| dc.description.abstract | This research was a classroom action research. It was intended to improve the
eighth year students’ structure achievement. The research subject was the students of
class VIII B. The research subjects were chosen because most of the students got less
than 75 in structure, in which 75 was the standard minimum requirement
(KKM/Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal). They had difficulties in class. The students of
VIII B had problems in writing the simple past tense sentences. They could not
differentiate between the use of verbs either in the past tense or in the present tense.
This classroom action research was conducted in cycles in which each cycle
covered the planning of the action, the implementation of the action, observation and
evaluation, data analysis, and the reflection of the action. This research used
observation and structure test as the data collection methods. Observation was used to
observe the students’ participation in the teaching learning process of structure
through remedial teaching. Structure test was used for measuring the students’
structure achievement after they were given the action. The test materials covered the
use of simple past tense and modal auxiliary.
The classroom action research was successful if 75% of research subjects
taking the test get score 75 as the minimum score (SKM/Standar Kelulusan Minimal),
and if 75% students are active in the teaching learning through remedial teaching. In
Cycle 1, the result of the structure test showed that there were only 10 students who
got score ≥75. In other words, the percentage of the students who got scores at least
75 in Cycle1 was 27% of 37 students. The mean score was 66.4. Besides, the result of observation also showed that there were only 12 students or 32.4% of the students
who were active in the teaching learning process of structure through remedial
teaching. In conclusion, Cycle 1 was failed to achieve the targeted minimum
requirement. It had to be continued to the Cycle 2.
In Cycle 2, the result of the structure test showed 27 students or 100% of the
students got score ≥75. The mean score improved from 66.4 in Cycle 1 to 83.9 in
Cycle 2. The result of observation also showed a significant improvement that there
were 21 students of 27 students categorized as active students or 77.7% of the
students took part actively in the remedial teaching learning process. Based on the
results both of the structure test and the observation in Cycle 2, it could be concluded
that it had already achieved the objective of the research. Therefore, the research
stopped in Cycle 2. It means that the action of teaching structure through remedial
teaching could improve the students’ structure achievement. | en_US |
