Conclusions CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

A. Conclusions

This research was aimed at developing listening – speaking materials for the 4 th grade students of Chit – Chat program in SD Negeri Tempurejo 3 Blora. In the discussion of chapter four, there are two main parts which are concerned with the design of the developed listening – speaking materials and the characteristics of the suitable listening – speaking materials for the 4 th grade students of Chit – Chat program in SD Negeri Tempurejo 3 Blora. The developed listening – speaking materials consists of four units in which each unit presents different topics. The topics of the listening – speaking materials are chosen based on the students’ interest and needs. The materials are developed into some activities which promote group and whole class activities. The materials are developed based on the theory of Total Physical Response TPR and the Presentation, Practice, and Production PPP approach. The teacher’ guide book is also provided to help the teacher use the developed listening – speaking materials. The results of evaluation show that the listening – speaking materials are suitable to teach listening and speaking for the 4 th grade students of Chit – Chat program in SD Negeri Tempurejo 3 Blora. The characteristics of suitable materials include five aspects. Those are goal, input, activity, layout, and instruction. In the aspect of goal, the materials should be relevant with the goal of the lesson. The students at the fourth grade of Elementary schools are expected to be able to communicate in a very simple way. The goal of the listening – speaking activities is to give chances to the students in practicing their listening and speaking abilities. These activities prepared the students to be able to communicate with others in a very simple way. The language input in listening – speaking materials should be presented in a very simple way. In this the developed listening – speaking materials was presented in “more to know”, “let’s sing”, “list of expressions” parts. The topics of each unit were chosen based on students’ interest and needs. The topics chosen were relevant with the daily life. It made the materials were easily understood by the students. Moreover, the linguistic aspect, the number of new vocabulary, difficulty of the task, expressions, and also structure of the language should be in the level of 4 th grade students. Apart from that the listening – speaking materials developed into some activities that supported the students to be able to communicate with other in a very simple way. To get there, there were three steps that were conducted. They were presentation, practice, and production. Most of the activities used in the materials were group work and whole class activities. The arrangement of the activities based on the contribution and the level of difficulty was aimed at preparing the students to be able to get information on their own. Since the students had short attention span, the interesting and varied activities should be promoted to avoid boredom. The next characteristic is layout. The developed listening – speaking materials was a book for the 4 th grade students of Chit – Chat program in SD Negeri Tempurejo 3 Blora. It presented materials of listening and speaking with suitable pictures to help students understand the materials. The colorful pictures and layout would attract students’ attention. The last chara cteristic is instruction. The “Back to Nature” book as the students’ book of listening – speaking materials should have clear instruction. The structure of the sentences should be clear and easy to be understood by the students. There was an example for each exercise to help students do the work. The teacher’ guide was made to help teacher use the listening – speaking materials. It consisted of clear steps of using the materials on how to present the materials. The teacher’ guide was written in Indonesia so it was appropriate to be used by nonnative English speakers.

B. Suggestions 1.