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Nur Alfa Rahmah
A. Title
problems should be omitted because it is irrelevant with what the thesis mainly
discussed.
In addition, in the background of the study, the researcher did not give a
strong reason why he chose TBI to solve the problem of low reading achievement
of the students. He only quoted an experts opinion that TBI is specially designed
instructional task will be useful to develop grammar and other dimension of
communicative competence (Richards, 2002). After the statement, he jumped
into the conclusion that Implicitly, TBI can be used as a method to improve the
students achievement in reading, especially narrative text. There is some
irrelevance between what is TBI specially designed for and why it used by the
researcher to overcome low narrative reading achievement. TBI is designed for
grammar and communicative competence while narrative text is somewhat a bit
far from the two competences even though they are still in one area: English
skills, ability, and proficiency. Therefore, the researcher should have elaborated
further why TBI was used in this classroom action research. The adoption of
experts statement should be strong enough to support or strengthen the
foundation of problem formulation.
C. Research Design
This thesis used descriptive qualitative research design. It adopted
Classroom Action Research (CAR) spiral, the model proposed by Kemmis and
Taggart (1988). It is spiral system, consisting of four components: planning,
acting, observing, and reflecting.
Identification of Problem
Reflecting
Planning
CYCLE 1
Acting
Observing
Planning
Reflecting
CYCLE 2
Observing
CYCLE 3/etc
Acting
interview, and documentation should have come in data-type part because they are
not instruments but methods to collect data. The researcher should have written
interview sheet and observation sheet instead. For the documentation, he should
have written the tool he used to document his data.
Questionnaire and reading test were correct; the reading test is clearly
explained to have two kinds: pre-test and post-test. However, these two
instruments did not cover all instruments used in the research. The suggested
points above should be added to complete them both. Furthermore, lesson plans
and students score should also be mentioned since the researcher used them too.
G. Data Analysis
The researcher divided data analysis into two parts: quantitative and
qualitative. For quantitative, the researcher analyzed three data he collected:
questionnaire, lesson plan, and students score. To count the average of the
students score, he used this formula:
Total score
Mean =
X 100%
Total sample of students
To analyze the qualitative data, the researcher uses the diagram below.
Collecting raw data
Reduction
Corpus data
Analyzing data
Result of data analysis
In Research Findings and Discussion chapter, the researcher uses the
interview with the teacher and students score to come into conclusion that:
1. Students have bad score in the reading of narrative text
2. Students motivation was very low
3. The teaching technique was ineffective
4. Ineffective teaching technique makes students less motivated
5. Being less motivated, students get bad score
There are somewhat gaps among these premises. The researcher just should not
have easily interpreted that the teaching technique was ineffective only by looking
X 100%
Total sample of students
In conclusion, this thesis still need many revision especially from chapter I
to chapter III because there are still a lot of unclear explanation and even mistaken
concepts about classroom action research and research itself. The researcher
should be able to distinguish between instruments, objects of research, and data
collection method. The population, sample, and sampling technique also should be
explained and elaborated clearly.