Research in English
learning is a scientific activity that aims at investigating the rules that
work in the process of English learning. Understanding a process of English
teaching means being able to explain the system, rules, patterns, or formula, in
the process of English teaching (Marshall & Rossman, 1995:16) Researchers believe that an effective
process of English teaching is based on a certain system, rules, patterns,
formula, or regularity. It is this
system that is going to be discovered by researchers in English teaching.
This article explains
the process of classroom action research that covers repeated cycles consisting
of planning, implementing, observing, and reflecting. Four key terms used in Classroom
Action Research are planning, acting,
observing, and reflecting. Planning refers to the proposed instructional strategy to be
developed in the research to solve instructional problems. Acting refers to the implementation of the strategy that has been
planned, (usually) with or without a collaborator. Observing and reflecting refers to assessing the
success of the implemented strategy in solving the instructional problems. In observing,
the data indicating success and other instructional problems are recorded,
while in reflecting all the recorded
data are analyzed to judge how much the implemented strategy has effectively
solved the problems