5. The implementation of giving handouts helps the students to keep in mind the
materials and help their vocabulary and also the pronunciation. It implies that students’ vocabulary and pronunciation will be improved.
6. The implementation of using classroom English can make students be familiar
with English. It implies that by used to listening to and speaking English daily, the students speaking skills will be improved.
C. SUGGESTIONS
Some suggestions are given to the participants who are closely related to this study. The suggestions are made based on the conclusions and implications of
this study. They are presented as follows: 1.
For the English teachers In reference to the result of this research, group work is effective to improve
students’ speaking skills. Therefore, the English teachers are suggested to apply group work in the English teaching and learning process in order to improve the
students’ speaking skills. Moreover, the English teachers should enrich their creativity in teaching English speaking by applying many interesting and
communicati ve activities to attract the students’ interest and involvement.
2. For students
The implementation of group work is useful to improve students’ interactions and
their speaking skills. However, the students are suggested to implement the principles of group work in their daily learning in order to improve the better
result of learning.
3. For other researchers
This research only focuses on implementing group work in the speaking teaching and learning process. This research concerns on improving the students’ speaking
skills by maximizing students’ speaking performance during the teaching and learning activities. Therefore, the other researchers who are interested in the same
field are recommended to continue and improve this action research in order to find out o
ther efforts to improve students’ speaking skills.
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