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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
This research study has two main goals the first is to find out the target and learning needs of listening and speaking materials for the seventh grade
students at SMP N 15 Yogyakarta. The second is to develop an appropriate English learning multimedia of listening and speaking materials for the seventh
grade students at SMP N 15 Yogyakarta. In this chapter the conclusions are drawn and the suggestions are proposed.
A. Conclusions
1. The Results of the Needs Analysis
Based on the research findings, the needs analysis is divided into two aspects, they are target needs and learning needs. Those aspects are described as
follows:
a. The Target Needs
Target needs is defined as what the learner needs to do in the target situation. Basically, grade VII students’ goal in learning English is to accomplish
core and basic competencies that have been set by curriculum. Students target needs in this research covered three basic competencies of the first three units of
the textbook When Englis Rings the Bell. The first is greeting, introducing and leave taking. The second is saying names of the days, time, names of the months,
dates and years. The last is telling personal identity and introducing everybody in
family. Various listening and speaking activities are formulated to help students achieve those needs.
b. The Learning Needs
Research findings related to the learning needs cover some key elements such as input, design, procedure, teacher’s role and setting.
1 Input In terms of materials input students want to have richer materials
compared to the adapted textbook. An animation that presents a dialogue is the most chosen type of input. In terms of input length, students prefer to listen to 4-
6 minutes length audio recording. As the type of voice most of the students agreed to have children’s voice as the main input. And regarding the picture and
animation availability most of the students consider it very important. 2 Design
Students’ learning needs related to the multimedia design can be summarized as follows. Students prefer to have Comic Sans as the font design.
For the navigations buttons, students think that it is better if the buttons produce sound anytime it is clicked. Regarding the color, they prefer to have blue as the
main color. Concerning backsound and translation availability most of the students consider it sometimes important.
3 Procedure Students’ preferences regarding learning procedures are summarized as
follows. For the task sequence, students prefer to have listening input first then followed by speaking activity. As the listening activity, they want to have more
practice on listening and then answering some questions. And for the speaking procedure, they prefer to have conversation practice as the activity.
4 Teacher’s role and Setting For the teacher’s role students wish their teacher helps them by giving
example before doing the tasks in the interactive learning multimedia and regarding the setting most students like to work in group.
2. The Characteristics of Appropriate Interactive Learning
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