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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

There are two sub-chapters in this section. They are conclusions and recommendations. The conclusion part is to conclude the research, whereas the other part contains the recommendations for the materials designed and for the future researchers.

A. Conclusions

The objectives of this research are to answer the research questions, firstly how is a set of English speaking materials for grade eight of the English club students designed? and secondly what does the design look like? In order to answer the first question, the researcher used Kemp’s model of instructional design and Borg and Gall ’s RD methods. In the first part, that is research and information collecting, the researcher collected the information by interviewing the English club teacher. The next step was planning. In this part the researcher set the learning goals, topics, objectives and general purposes of the designed materials. The third part was to develop preliminary from of products. In this section the researcher listed the subject content and also selected teachinglearning activities for the speaking materials. After designing the speaking materials, the researcher distributed the evaluation sheets to five experts to validate the designed materials. The last step was to revise the designed materials. The researcher revised the materials based on the comments and suggestions given by the experts. The suggestions from the experts were grouped in three areas, namely: the clarity of the instructions e.g. more elaborate instructions of each sections of the units, the improvement of the design presentation e.g. color and pictures, and improvement of the teaching guidelines e.g. more guidelines on how to use the chants To answer the second research question, the researcher provided the main product of the designed materials. It consist of four units and four different topics for the materials. The title of the topics were Animals, Making an Appointment, How Was Your Weekend, and Meal Time. Each unit have four different parts, namely A: Let’s Warm Up With The Chant, B: Grammar Focus, C: Let’s Practice, and D: Wrap Up Chant . E The result of the descriptive statistic showed that the designed materials were well-designed and suitable to teach speaking for eighth grade of English Club of SMP Pangudi Luhur 1 Yogyakarta. Some improvements needed for the designed materials based on the comments and suggestions of the five experts were done to have the final version of the designed speaking materials see Appendix D.

B. Recommendations