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theories only. Through Internet, students may get various models or articles which they can observe and imitate how the writers develop an idea into sentences that support to
compose a paragraph. The students also perceive that the use of Internet give contribution toward their
grammar mastery in writing. Singer 1990: 40 states, “People might store the grammatical structures of sentences that are encountered in their reading”. Sometimes,
students would rather recall grammatical patterns that are applied in some articles or research paper models they have ever read. There are sentences that so impress the
readers, that they would be kept in the readers memories. Observing the tenses or grammatical patterns often, students may learn to apply what tense should be used for
what situation. Through reading the articles or models from the Internet, students would also
meet repeated structures of English sentence. This helps the students to memorize the pattern easier. Moreover, these patterns are put in contexts, so that the students may
understand the correct use of English structures. The students would also learn new vocabulary which they often meet while
they were reading and observing the articles or models from Internet. Their reading may give a greater possibility of repeating one word throughout the paragraph or
sentences. Therefore, the students would memorize vocabulary that they often meet. The more familiar a word is, the easier the students may remember its meaning, how to
use it, and when to use it. By having several articles and models from the Internet, the students would
become rich of vocabulary and sufficient knowledge which help them to start writing. The students know how to apply correct diction or how to avoid word repetition by
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There is another fact from the data results. It seemed that not all of the students thought hat I was not a good idea to use Internet in doing writing VI exercises. There
are some respondents whose mean score is below 3.0. Few students have negative perceptions on the use of Internet in Writing VI class and on the Internet’s
contributions toward their writing proficiency. Negative perception is probably because they do not think Internet helping them much in doing the Writing VI exercises. They
may prefer book in the library to Internet. Nevertheless, most of the students suggest that Internet is a good media and
applicable to other subjects besides Writing subject. They also satisfied with their writing product because of the use of Internet.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
This chapter deals with two parts, namely conclusions and implications. The first part deals with the presentation of the conclusions of this study. The second part
deals with the implications. The implications are recommended for writing lecturers, writing VI students, English Education Field, and further research.
A. Conclusions
This study aimed to find out the students’ perceptions of the use of Internet in writing VI class. There is only one major research problem formulation as stated in
chapter 1. The problem is about the students’ perceptions of the use of Internet in writing VI class. In order to answer the research problem, the researcher conducted a
survey research by distributing questionnaire and conducting interview. Based on the results of the questionnaires and the interview, the following
conclusions are drawn. It is found that the Internet is a good supporting medium for English language learning, especially in writing proficiency, and the students perceive
Internet positively. Students perceive the use of Internet as an enjoyable activity in doing their Writing VI exercises. They are interested in and motivated to learn writing
because of the use of the Internet. They could get sufficient knowledge and references to write. They also believe that the Internet gives contribution toward their
improvement in writing proficiency. All of us need to improve our writing proficiency. Having writing proficiency
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B. Suggestions
The basis of these suggestions was that the Internet plays a very important role in language learning, especially in writing as a means of improving writing proficiency.
This part will present some suggestions that will be intended for writing lecturers, Writing VI students who are interested in improving their writing abilities, and the last
is for further research which can be done related to this study.
1. For the Writing VI Lecturers
The conclusion from the previous part showed that the Internet is considered as a good supporting medium and students have high or positive perceptions of the use
of Internet and its contributions in writing VI class. They got a lot benefits related to their writing.
The results of this data show us that there are several respondents who perceive the use of Internet and Internet’s contributions negatively; therefore the
researcher suggests that the lecturers may take a role in creating the circumstances in which negative perception may be changed into positive perception. The lecturers may
use multimedia lab in writing class, so that during the class the students can browse articles or references.
The lecturers also improve writing VI web. They can provide something new for each week in the web, therefore students will be more interested in using Internet
and get more new experience, knowledge, or information. By providing interesting materials in the web every week, the lecturers may facilitate the students to be more
autonomous in learning. The lectures can also ask students to submit their tasks through Internet: use email. It can be done twice or more a week. Lecturers ask the
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revise their writing and submit in the class. This activity makes the students do writing more frequent. In Writing Across the Curriculum High School Teacher Handbook
2004 , it is stated that if writing is done frequently, it can improve students’ writing
proficiency. The more they write, the more their proficiencies improve.
2. For the Writing VI Students
This research discussed any related information on the use of Internet in writing class. The conclusion also showed that Internet a good supporting medium and
most of the students perceive the Internet and its contribution in a positive way. The students must realize that Internet is a good medium to support their
learning. Through the Internet, students can get knowledge to support their learning through pleasurable way. On the other hand, the students might see that Internet is a
medium as a means to improve their writing ability and motivate them to write well. Therefore, the researcher suggests the students to improve their strategy on working
with Internet, so that they can use Internet maximally in doing Writing VI exercises. They may use the Internet more often to get several articles and sources in order to
support their tasks in writing. This may brings optimal result of their writing products.
3. For the Further Research
This research is hoped to inspire future researchers to conduct further research related to the use of Internet in writing VI class and to enrich the existing research. The
researcher also suggests a further researcher to consider that there are still many aspects in this area. The future researchers can explores those aspects. This research focused
only on the perception stage, therefore, other researchers can do research on learning, personality, attitude, motives, effort, or behavior stage.
