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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

This chapter presents conclusions and suggestions. The researcher divides this section into two main parts. The first part presents the conclusions, which are drawn from the data analysis as described in Chapter IV. The second part presents some suggestions for the English teachers, students and other researchers who are interested in a similar research.

A. Conclusions

Grammar is one of the basic components of language which must be learnt by Junior High School students. It is because the students should know simple past tense which becomes the language feature used in learning a recount text. Therefore, the researcher should also teach the students about the past forms of verbs which are included a part of simple past tense in learning a recount text. A recount text is one of the texts which should be taught for the eighth grade students of Junior High School. The students are expected to be able to understand recount through four skills of language, including reading. However, they face difficulties in filling the past forms of irregular verbs in a recount text. It becomes the researcher’s responsibility to overcome that problem. By seeing the condition above, the researcher conducted classroom action research based on Kemmis and McTaggart ’s model. They were planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. In this research, acting and observing would be in one step. Then, the researcher implemented the strategy of flash cards to help the 79 students improve their irregular verb mastery. There were the preliminary study and two cycles in this research. From the students’ average test scores which had been analyzed, the data showed that the students’ average test scores increased in the preliminary study was 51.2, first cycle was 81.3, and second cycle was 86.5. It could be concluded that the use of flash cards helped the eighth grade students of SMP N 3 Klaten to learn the past forms of irregular verbs in a recount text. The use of flash cards made the students interested in memorizing the past forms of irregular verbs. It could be seen that they were very enthusiastic to practice the flash cards in the teaching and learning process based on the instruction given by the researcher. Moreover, the students could really improve their irregular verb mastery. It could be seen from the average of their test score in the second cycle was higher than the average of their test score in the preliminary study and first cycle. However, the students agreed that their irregular verb mastery increased after learning the past forms of irregular verbs using the flash cards. Therefore, the use of flash cards could motivate the students memorize the past forms of verbs. It could also help them improve their irregular verb mastery and increase their vocabulary.

B. Suggestions