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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

This chapter presents three main parts. They are conclusions, implications, and suggestions. The explanations of each point are presented as follows.

A. Conclusions

This research was action research which aimed at improving students‟ writing ability by using the Brainstorming technique at SMP N 1 Nanggulan Kulonprogo. This study involved the students of VIII F that consisted of 32 students with varied levels of proficiency. The research was carried out in the second semester of the academic year of 20152016 from April through May 2016. Regarding to the discussions in the previous chapters, this research focused on improving students‟ writing ability by implementing Brainstorming technique. The result of the study showed that there were some improvements related to their writing ability. First, the implementation of the Brainstorming technique could improve the students‟ motivation and involvement to build their confidence to generate ideas in their writing. This was based on the fact that they enthusiastically participated in the teacher - students interaction and students‟ group discussions during the teaching and learning process in the classroom. Second, related to the grammatical aspect, the students had improvements related to the grammatical aspect. In the first cycle there were still many students who had grammatical mistakes. Therefore, the researcher planned to give them more practices related to sentence structure and grammar to the students in the second cycle. In Cycle II, it was found out that only few students had grammatical mistakes. It means that most of them had understood more about their grammar. The next is related to vocabulary mastery. The students‟ vocabulary mastery was much richer after they practiced using the brainstorming technique. The students could choose the appropriate words when producing a text. They also could deliver their ideas better. The next is about the students‟ writing ability. The students‟ writing ability improved much better by using the brainstorming technique. It helps the students to generate ideas more effectively to produce a text. Brainstorming facilitates the students to activate their prior knowledge before they practice their writing. By implementing the technique, the students could feel at ease in performing the writing task. Moreover, by implementing the brainstorming technique, the activities in teaching and learning process were more varied. Since the researcher introduced this new technique to the students to learn writing, they were interested in and more motivated to learn in the teaching and learning process. In addition, there was statistical evidence that the students‟ writing ability improve. The improvement could be seen from the progress of the students‟ score before and after the action. The researcher held a pre-test and a post-test to determine whether there was a statistical difference between their writing score before and after the implementation of the Brainstorming technique. The mean score of the students‟ writing ability in the pre-test was 4.93, while the mean score of the students‟ writing ability in the post-test increased to 6.24. It proved that the implementation of Brainstorming technique helped the students to achieve a better writing ability in produci ng writing‟s work. In reference to the result above, it can be concluded that the implementation of Brainstorming technique in the teaching and learning process of writing was believed to improve the students‟ writing skill.

B. Implications

The result of this research showed that the use of Brainstorming technique had successfully improved the VIII grade students‟ writing ability at SMP N 1 Nanggulan Kulonprogo in the academic year of 20152016. The implications of the actions can be presented as follows. 1. The implementation of the Brainstorming technique in teaching and learning process of writing is important since it could improve students‟ writing skill. 2. Students who were trained using brainstorming technique showed improvement related to their writing ability. The students were able to generate ideas by using the brainstorming technique. The improvement can be seen from the increasing of students‟ mean score of the pre-test and post-test. Students could achieve higher scores in writing after the implementation of the actions. It implies that the brainstorming technique is successful to improve the students‟ writing ability. 3. The students feel enthusiastic about brainstorming technique since the technique helps them to improve their English writing performances. The students also become more motivated in learning writing. Besides, it also encourages students to actively participate in the teaching and learning process. It implies that the brainstorming technique can promote students to learn writing. 4. Conducting various activities in the classroom such as implementing the brainstorming technique would be very beneficial for the students. They will be more interested in learning and will not easily get bored. It implies that brainstorming technique is an interesting activity applied in teaching and learning writing.

C. Suggestions

In accordance to the conclusions and implications of the study above, the researcher proposes the following suggestions. 1. For English Teachers The teacher needs to create various interesting activities which can motivate and support the students to learn English especially writing. It is suggested that the English teachers need to apply the brainstorming technique as an alternative activity in teaching writing. 2. For the Students The students need to broaden their experience in writing a ctivities and discover their own best way in learning writing. They should practice regularly to improve their writing skill. It is suggested that the students need to use the