Providing Students with Performance-Based Feedback

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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

In this chapter, the researcher is going to present the conclusions and the suggestions. The conclusions would summarize the major findings that were discussed in the previous chapter of this research. Then, the suggestions section would cover suggestions that are useful to enhance the implementation of self- fulfilling prophecy for faculty of education Sanata Dharma University, the ELESP lecturers, ELESP students as the teacher’s candidates and future researchers.

A. Conclusions

There were two problems formulated in this research. They were lecturers’ perception toward self-fulfilling prophecy which is implemented in their class of English Language Study Program ELESP and to what extent do the perceptions on self-fulfilling prophecy influence their way of teaching. This research found some findings as follows. The first problem was answered by conducting interviews with four lecturers of English Language Education Study Program. The interview was conducted face to face with each of participant in a different time. The result of data analysis indicated that all of the participants implemented self-fulfilling prophecy in a positive way. All of the participants chose to implement positive self-fulfilling prophecy rather than negative self-fulfilling prophecy. Moreover, 71 the implementation of self-fulfilling prophecy was also successful to encourage students’ motivation based on the lecturers’ perception. All of the participants had the experience of implementing self-fulfilling prophecy because most of them implemented self-fulfilling prophecy on how the way they teach although some of them did not realize it before. All of the participants realized that being good educators is important to make the students engaged to the learning process. They also realized that lecturers have big roles in either stude nts’ success or failure. Believing in the stu dents’ potentials and making the students aware of the lecturers’ care are the way the lecturers implement self-fulfilling prophecy. The second research problem was also answered by the interview. Based on the lecturers’ perception, the researcher found that although the implementation of self-fulfilling prophecy is different, the outline and the purpose of self-fulfilling prophecy is still the same. It is revealed that the lectur ers’ behavior toward the students was influenced by the self-fulfilling prophecy implementation. All of the participants said that when they believe their students or put their trust to their students, it would influence their way of teaching. When the lecturers believe in their students, it will influence the choice of the material, the way lecturers motivate students, and also the way lecturers’ teach. To conclude, there are different views among lecturers which cannot be categorized as right or wrong. It needs to be kept in mind that each lecturer has his or her own unique strategy to fulfil his or her roles as an educator. Based on the findings, it would be good if lecturers have their personal approach to make the good relation between the lecturer and the student. However, if the educators do 72 not consider such kind of self-fulfilling prophecy as one of the important strategies, they might have other excellences. It cannot be denied that self- fulfilling prophecy has an important roles in education. However, educators need to realize that self-fulfilling prophecy is not the one and only strategy to enhance the students’ learning capacity.

B. Suggestions

According to the conclusion above, it was shown that the lecturers gave positive perception about self-fulfilling prophecy. It is believed that it can be used in teaching- learning process such as encouraging students’ motivation. Therefore, in this part, the researcher would like to give some suggestions to English Language Education Study Program, ELESP lecturers, ELESP students and future researchers.

1. For Faculty of Teachers Training and Education

Based on the findings of this research, the Faculty of Teachers Training and Education can incorporate self-fulfilling prophecy theory to one of the chapter of Introduction to Education course. The Faculty of Teachers Training and Education can also employ self-fulfilling prophecy to Micro-teaching class since the students as teacher candidates have already learned about self-fulfilling prophecy in the Introduction of Education. Thus, the students can practice to implement self-fulfilling prophecy in Micro-teaching class. Teacher candidates in Sanata Dharma University need to be introduced to self-fulfilling prophecy since