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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
The researcher proposed to find out the process to improve the students’ motivation in reading hortatory exposition in studying English. There was one
research problem in this research. The researcher formulated the research problem using this question: ho
w does an authentic text improve the students’ motivation in reading hortatory exposition in SMA N I Kasihan Bantul?
In this chapter there are two main parts. This chapter presents the conclusions and recommendations of this research. The conclusion contains the
summary of the research findings based on the use authentic texts to motivate XI IPA I students of SMA N I Kasihan Bantul in studying English. In the second part,
the researcher provides suggestions for English teachers who will implement authentic texts in teaching English and also for the other researchers who will
conduct the same type of this research.
A. Conclusions
The researcher conducted the classroom action research in order to motivate the students’ reading motivation. The researcher implemented authentic
texts to improve the students ’ motivation in studying English as. In this research,
the researcher used Dialogue magazines as the teaching media. Based on the 103
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conducted in the second cycle. In planning step, the researcher made a new lesson plan. The researcher created the good atmosphere of the reading class by using
pictures and short videos in order to attract the students to discuss the topic. Meanwhile, the researcher also found some problems in choosing apropriate topic
for the students. The researcher used the recent topic as the topic in the first cycle which was not common for students so the students did not interest and could not
work well. In the second cycle, the researcher made improvement by choosing common topic. The researcher also made improvement in choosing the
appropriate text which was used as the teaching materials. In the first cycle most of the students faced problem about vocabulary which used in those texts. They
faced many unfamiliar words in texts which were used in the first cycle. In cycle two the researcher tried to use the text which did not provide more unfamiliar
words than the previous cycle. The data were collected from questionnaires, observation checklists,
students’ scores and field notes. The data showed that the students’ motivation in reading hortatory exposition increased. One of the reasons was because the
teacher improved the teaching media that the researcher implemented. The researcher chose appropriate reading materials for the students. The second reason
was choosing the appropriate topic for reading materials. The researcher chose the hortatory exposition texts which were taken from English magazine which the
content could be used as the interesting teaching media. In this research, the
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topic, level of difficulties and contents for the students. Based on the implementation and improvement in each cycle, the level of
motivation of the students increased. In the first cycle was cycle the students motivation was not as high as the second cycle. In the first cycle, there were some
points which showed that the students had low motivation in reading. Meanwhile, in the second cycle the studen
ts’ motivation was better than the previous cycle. In this cycle, the researcher found that most of points of the observation result
showed that the students had high motivation. It meant the use authentic texts to motivate the students in studying English was really helpful.
B. Recommendations
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