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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 63 64 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