CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
This chapter shows the research conclusions and suggestions.The explanation will be explained as follows:
5.1 Conclusions
In line with the results of the data analysis and discussions, the following conclusions are given:
1. There is a significant effect of students’ self-esteem on their reading
comprehension. It is shown by the result of data analysis, the writer found that F
value
F
table
14.099 3.275898. it means that, there is a significant effect of students’ self-esteem on their reading comprehension.Self-esteem
affect the students’ reading comprehension achievement by making the students be more confident and have more motivation in learning process,
so that, it can improve their reading comprehension achievement.
2. The students with high self-esteem get reading comprehension
achievement better than the students with low self-esteem.it is shown from
the significant value of the scheffe on the students with high and low self- eesteem is 0.000 and the mean score of reading comprehension of students
with high self-esteem is 75 and the mean score of reading comprehension
of students with low self-esteem is 54.
3. The problems that are faced by the students with low self-esteem is to
understand the meaning of the words. It is shown by the students’ answer
of the interview that they get difficult to get the meaning of words in the text when they reading, so that, they do not believe that they can
comprehend the text well. All students with low self-esteem says that they get difficult to get the meaning of words in the text when they reading, so
that, they do not believe that they can comprehend the text well. They are also doubt when they answer the reading comprehension test, so that, their
reading comprehension are bad.
5.2 Suggestions
Given the conclusions above, the writer wants to give suggestions as follows:
1. The students should develop their self-esteem with trust to their own
ability and trust that they can do the best as they believe, so that, they can more confident and have high motivation in learning especially in English
learning. Besides that, the students should improve their reading comprehension achievement by doing a lot of practice because they can
trust their own ability if they have tried a lot of practice.
2. The English teacher should help the students to establish or improve their
self-esteem in order to create the positive environment by giving appreciation to the students, so that, they have positive appreciation on
themselve. Besides that, the English teacher maynot underestimate the students to avoid students feeling imferior.
3. To the next research, the writer suggests to investigate correlation between
self-esteem to other skills, such as writing, speaking, or listening skills or to compare .self-esteem with other personality aspects such as motivation,
self-confidence, etc in teaching English to find out which the aspects that more influence the students’ achievement.
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