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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This chapter consists of conclusions and recommendations. After the researcher presents the data gathered and analysis, the researcher draws
conclusions. The recommendations part will present the suggestion for the students, teachers, and future researchers.
A. Conclusions
This research is conducted to find out the students‟ perception on the
implementation of the Weekly Public Speaking in
Sekolah Menengah Pertama Negeri 1 Godean
and the students‟ suggestion to improve the implementation of the weekly Public Speaking.
The conclusion derived from this research is that the students of
Sekolah Menengah Pertama Negeri 1 Godean
had positive perception towards the implementation of the weekly public speaking. The students felt pleased with the
activity and agreed that the activity was held in their school. Students also showed that the weekly public speaking gave benefits for the students. Weekly public
speaking did not only improve the students‟ self-confidence but also their English speaking ability. The implementation of the weekly public speaking also improves
their knowledge, increases their vocabulary, and improves the correct pronunciation. Students also agreed that the weekly public speaking could be used
as an English language learning media. Several steps of the weekly public speaking implementation were
employed by the students. However, several points need to be considered in order
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to be an effective public speaker as stated by the expert previously. They are gestures, postures, eye contact, topic selection, pronunciation, nervousness, and
mastery of the material. According to the students‟ experience, there were some suggestions to
improve the weekly public speaking in
Sekola h Menengah Pertama Negeri 1 Godean
. Firstly, the students stated that the speaker should be more than one two or three speakers were better each week. Secondly, in order to make the speech
more interesting, the students suggested the existence of question and answer session. Thirdly, after conducting the weekly public speaking, the teacher was
expected to give evaluation. detailed evaluation on the students‟ performance would be beneficial for the students‟ improvement on public speaking. Lastly, the
students suggested that the teacher held a speech contest every semester as a way to show their speaking ability especially in public speaking.
B. Recommendations