The Strengths and Weaknesses of Using Flash Animations

4.2 The Strengths and Weaknesses of Using Flash Animations

in Teaching Retelling a Story In one hand, the use of ―Flash Animation‖ in teaching retelling a story had strengths. Firstly, using ―Flash Animation‖ could arouse the students‘ motivation in learning English. The animated cartoon icon had a unique appeal to everyone especially for young learner. Therefore, it could arouse the students‘ interest to produce many sentences orally. Secondly, the students could get and build their idea easily. The reading text in the flash animation could help them to catch what the story teller said. Thirdly, the ―Flash Animation‖ provided a sophisticated English teaching learning media. So, they were not bored with the classroom activities. Fourthly, the students could learn how to pronounce the words, the intonation, and the stress of the sentences from the native speaker. The story teller was the native speaker. Fourthly, the website of the flash animation was free, so the teachers or students could get the materials the need. Finally, the teaching retelling story u sing ―Flash Animation‖ was very helpful for the improvements of the students‘ speaking skill. On the other hand, using ―Flash Animation‖ in teaching English retelling story had weaknesses. They were: the teacher should provide a complete device and it must be connected to the internet first. But the teacher could alternate it to be offline by downloading the flash animation; the classroom condition must be conductive to conduct the teaching learning process and must be supported by the appropriate sound system. These requirements should be completed, if they were not fulfilled, the maximal result could not be achieved; the material provided on the website still a few number, and some of them could not be downloaded. 73

CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

This chapter presents the conclusions and suggestions of the study.

5.1 Conclusions

After interpreting the findings in the previous chapter, I come to conclusions as follows: The preliminary observation showed that the type of activities proposed was not very motivating. The students were not offered an interesting media to keep give their learning attention. The examples and activities provided did not deal with their interest. The students need some activities that motivate them in learning speaking English through retelling a story. Thus, I tried to give them interesting media to attract their interest and motivation. I used ―flash animation‖ in this study to help the students to get and build their speaking idea easily The implementation of using flash animation as a media to teach retelling a story has proved to be successful. The steps in implementing the flash animations in the teaching learning process were; preparing the materials to teach retelling a story using flash animations, reviewing the materials on the flash animations, and asking students to do story retelling. I introduced the flash animation to the students, and then I asked t hem to watch the flash animation carefully. Then, I explained about the generic structure, language features of narrative text and steps to do story retelling. I played the flash animation for the