CLASSROOM ACTION RESEARCH

Classroom Action Research is a part of activities of professional English classroom teachers. Through Classroom Action Research, English teachers improve the quality of their instructional performance by developing innovative instructional strategies to solve their classroom problems. The research starts with observing and identifying classroom problems and planning is the first step to prepare the classroom instructional strategy to be developed in the study to solve the instructional problems. The instructional strategy has been selected based on the belief that the strategy can theoretically solve the problems. It is this strategy that becomes the focus of the study, to be prepared, to be tried out, to be revised, to be tried again until it proves effective to solve the problems. Classroom Action Research is an effective media in improving the quality of English teachers performance in instruction as well as students achievement in learning English in classrooms. In Classroom Action Research, English teachers assess the effectiveness of their own teaching activities and plan the improvement based on the result of the assessment. Action is the second step after the planning step to implement the instructional strategy that has been planned. At this stage, the researcher has mastered the instructional scenario before starting the implementation in class. The researcher at this stage is not in the process of learning how to implement the plan, nor in the process of improving the quality of teachers performance, but in the process of actually trying out the strategy to test how much the strategy can solve the classroom problems. Observing is the process of collecting data indicating the success of the strategy in solving the classroom problems. Classroom Action Research for English Instruction is aimed at developing innovative instructional strategy that can help enhance the success in students learning English. English teachers believe that every student can succeed in learning English if appropriate learning strategy is provided. When students fail in learning English, the blame is on the teachers who do not provide appropriate help to the students. When the students fail in learning English, it must be because the teachers have failed in helping them. And this is the teachers problem. Identifying classroom problems and trying to solve the problems can be done through the process of Classroom Action research. It is the job of professional teachers to identify their classroom problems and to try to solve the problems.

Classroom Action Research is done by teachers in their own classrooms. As English teachers, they have to solve their classroom problems or improve the quality of their classroom practices to result in better English achievement of their students.