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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

This chapter consists of two parts, namely conclusions and suggestions. The first part deals with the conclusions of the study. The second part deals with the suggestions that are expected to help the English teacher of the sixth grade students of SD Kanisius Kanutan and future researchers.

A. Conclusions

The study was to design integrated English instructional materials for the sixth grade students of SD Kanisius Kanutan. In this study, the writer formulated two problems. Those problems were 1 How is a set of integrated English instructional materials based on a cooperative learning approach for the sixth grade students of SD Kanisius Kanutan designed? and 2 What does the designed set of integrated English instructional materials based on a cooperative learning approach for the sixth grade students of SD Kanisius Kanutan look like? In the study, the writer employed Research and Development R D method. R D consists of ten steps, but the writer only employed step 1 up to step 5. Those steps are 1 research and information collecting, 2 planning, 3 developing preliminary form of product, 4 preliminary field-testing, and 5 main product revision. In order to answer the first question, the writer used an instructional design model adapted from Kemp’s and Yalden’s. The writer combined these two models to design the materials because the combination reveals a clear and PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 74 complete step in designing the materials. Those steps are 1 conducting needs survey, 2 specifying goals, topics, and general purposes, 3 formulating learning objectives, 4 selecting and organizing contents, 5 selecting learning activities and resources, and 6 materials evaluation. Furthermore, the instructional design model applied in the study was appropriate with R D method employed by the writer. To answer the second question, the writer presents the final version of the set of integrated English instructional materials for the sixth grade students of SD Kanisius Kanutan. The designed materials contain eight units. Those eight units are presented as follows. UNIT 1 : Greeting and Introduction UNIT 2 : Family Professions UNIT 3 : Animals UNIT 4 : Sport UNIT 5 : Transportation UNIT 6 : Direction UNIT 7 : Story UNIT 8 : Our Heroes Each unit is divided into four parts, namely Let’s Get Started, Let’s Do It Together , Let’s Play Together, and What Have You Learnt?. Let’s Get Started contains activities which aim to activate the students’ background knowledge. Some activities are done in groups and some of them are done individually. By doing this part, the students would find it easier to come into the related topic. Let’s Do It Together is the main part of each unit. This part 75 contains activities in group and in pairs, such as Let’s discuss, Let’s listen, Let’s read , Let’s speak, and Let’s write. It’s time to do the quiz is the activity done individually in this section. This activity is aimed to measure the students’ achievement after they have discussion in group about the related topic. Let’s Play Together provides group games related to the topic being discussed. Group games activities are aimed to make learning atmosphere become comfortable and interesting for the students. This also make the students feel relax in learning English. In the last part, What Have You Learnt? is the students’ activity to write down about what the students have learnt through the topic. There are three types’ activities in this section. First, the students write a reflection related to the topic being discussed. Second, the students answer the comprehension questions related to the topic being discussed by drawing a star on the provided space. The last is the combination of first and second type. By writing down the reflection and answering the comprehension questions, the students are able to review and measure their understanding of the unit. Evaluation was also conducted in the study by distributing questionnaire to respondents. The respondents gave positive responses by stating that the materials were interesting, creative, and well-developed. The data from the material evaluation questionnaire were analyzed using central tendency. The results showed that the mean ranged from 3.8 up to 4.4 on the scale of 5.00. This showed that the materials were appropriate for the sixth grade students of SD Kanisius Kanutan. 76

B. Suggestions