C. Discussions
Based on the result of cycle 1 and cycle 2, the students showed some improvements. First, their writing ability was increased. The students could develop
the ideas easier and construct the sentences better because there were pictures and clues. Besides, the students’ understanding about simple past tense was also
increased. They could write a recount text using past tense. Moreover, they knew about the new vocabularies related to the topic based on the clue card. It showed that
cue card in the form pictures and clues was very useful for improving students’ writing ability. This is in relation with Harmer 2007: 134-156’s theory that pictures
in the classroom can be used for having some activities such as drills, games, understanding, ornamentation, prediction, and discussion.
The other improvement came from the students’ motivation. By using cue card media, the students became motivated in learning writing. They seemed so
happy and interested in the pictures. They also became active in the class by asking questions. They looked very enthusiastic in doing the tasks. Most of them did not
forget to bring and check their dictionary. It proved the statement of Brinton 2001 that media helps the teachers to motivate students.
In addition, by using cue card media, the teaching and learning process became interesting. The students not only just listened to the teacher’s explanation,
but also did the tasks in groups, pairs, or individually. Thus, they became actively participate in the learning process.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS, IMPLICATIONS, AND SUGGESTIONS
A. Conclusions
This research was conducted at grade VIII-E of SMP Negeri 4 Yogyakarta from January to March 2016. The purpose of this research was to improve the
students’ writing ability through the use of cue cards media. Based on the results and discussions in the previous chapter, it can be concluded that cue cards media
successfully improved students’ writing ability. The description of conclusions are presented below.
The first conclusion is that cue cards can be used to improve students’ writing motivation in learning writing. Besides, it also can engage the students’ attentions and
interests during the teaching and learning process. Moreover, there is positive attitude towards writing from the students. They do what the researcher asks enthusiastically.
They are actively participated in the class activity by asking questions related to the material. They are not afraid of making mistakes anymore because they will get
feedback from the researcher and chance to correct their mistakes. The second conclusion is that the implementation of cue cards in teaching and
learning process improved the students’ writing ability. It also enabled the students to express the ideas into written text. The students have improvement in some aspects of
writing such as content, organization, vocabulary, language use, and mechanic. It can be seen from the students’ scores. There is improvement of students’ score from pre-
test to post-test. Thus, the implementation of cue cards is believed to be effective to facilitate the students to improve their writing ability.
B. Implications
Based on the result of the research, the implementation of cue card is successful to improve the students’ writing ability in SMP Negeri 4 Yogyakarta
especially in class VIII-E. Besides, it also improved students’ motivation in learning writing. The use of cue card can be in various forms such as picture, picture series,
and clues card which can facilitate the students to improve their writing ability. Therefore, based on the result of this research, cue card can be used by all teachers in
every school to teach writing because it is very beneficial as media to be implemented in the writing teaching and learning process.
C. Suggestions
Some suggestions are proposed after conducting the research. They are for English teacher and other researcher. The description is presented as follows.
1. For English teacher In the teaching and learning process, teacher should be able to make the
students interested with the lesson. One way to make them interested and motivated is using media. Cue card is very beneficial to be used as media. It consists of pictures
and clues which are considered effective to be implemented in teaching and learning process of writing to improve the students’ ability.
2. For other researchers This research discusses the implementation of cue cards to improve the
students’ writing ability in SMP Negeri 4 Yogyakarta. Related to the focus of the study, it is expected that the result of the study can be used as an additional reference
for the other researcher who conduct the similar studies especially dealing with the teaching of writing.
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