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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS, IMPLICATIONS, AND SUGGESTIONS
A. Conclusions
This research focused on improving the stude nts’ reading
comprehension through authentic materials. The authentic materials which were implemented successfully improved the students’ reading
comprehension. Accompanying actions i.e. giving reading tips to the students and limiting the use of dictionary were also implemented. In supporting the
result, the data was presented in the form of qualitative and quantitative data. The qualitative data were presented as follows.
Authentic materials bring the real word to the English reading classroom. They offer the teacher many kinds of contexts, topics, and contents
which can be fit for the reading learners’ reading tasks. An authentic material
developer teacher has a broader perspective towards the students’ world.
The authentic materials also provide the students with the contexts by their authentic layouts. Those layouts represent the origin, the social purposes,
and the situational contexts of the text. Furthermore, authentic
materials’ language provides many informal words and slangs. They contain many words which can hardly be found in
formal course books. Those kinds of informal words might seem impolite but they are surely used in the real daily life communication.
Being amused by such authentic layouts and language, both interactions between the students with the teacher and the students themselves
were getting better. They were not afraid in asking to the teacher about their problems and they made good group discussions.
The accompanying action implemented alongside with authentic materials was giving the students tips in comprehending a text efficiently by
guessing the main idea of every paragraph in a text. The authentic materials themselves
still worked well in maintaining the students’ willingness. Furthermore, the accompanying action also successfully prompted the
students in doing their job effectively. In terms of quantitative data, there was an improvement on the
students’ reading comprehension. It could be seen from the result of pre-test and post-
test. The mean of the students’ scores improved from 6,7 on pre-test to 7,5 on post-test. It showed that authentic materials were successful in
improving the students’ reading comprehension.
B. Implications
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