Discussion THE RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DICUSSIONS

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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS, IMLICATIONS, AND SUGGESTIONS

A. CONCLUSIONS

The research was conducted to solve the problems related to vocabulary mastery through vocabulary cards. The research consisted of some steps, they are reconnaissance, actions which consist of planning, implementations and reflections. By conducting this research, there were several changes. The changes are presented as follow. 1. The researcher The researcher got more knowledge about teaching English especially in vocabulary mastery. The researcher found that the teacher should be a good model in the classroom because she will act as model in the teaching and learning process. Consequently, the researcher should practice pronouncing words properly to be imitated by the students. Before teaching the class, the researcher always practiced with her colleagues. The researcher got many thing to learn from the actions such as how to manage the students and time allocation, how to choose appropriate materials, tasks, and media, and etc. 2. The students Before the actions, the students tended to be passive when the teacher explained materials and when they were asked to do some tasks and the students were also afraid to speak up. Since the classroom activities were less varied, the students were not enthusiastically engaged in learning by giving less attention, being noisy and talking each other. The vocabulary cards game could affect the students’ behavior. They made a better atmosphere in the English class. The game got them in pair and large groups, the students became more active and confident in the classroom activity. The students could learn vocabulary in fun way and enjoyable. It was also an effective progress in the view of the fact that the studen ts’ vocabulary mastery improved. The changes of behavior could be observed from their improvement of self-confidence to speak up new words and also implement the new words in the vocabulary cards game. The students expressed a great enthusiasm to join the teaching and learning during the actions of the study. 3. The English teacher The English teacher become more open minded to make the teaching and learning process interesting. She improved her knowledge in creating the activities that could help the students to learn well especially in learning new vocabulary. She had improved her knowledge in using media and various materials to make the English lesson more interesting.

B. IMPLICATIONS

There are some implications due to the result of this research. The implications of the actions are presented below. 1. The implementation of applying vocabulary cards games to teach vocabulary could improve the students’ vocabulary mastery. Furthermore, vocabulary cads made the teaching and learning process more interesting. The students became active, motivated, and confident. It implies that the teacher has to give less-stressful, attractive, and interesting activities during the teaching and learning process. Thus, the students do not get bored in learning English. 2. The implementation of using the classroom English during the teaching and learning process effectively improved the students’ awareness and familiarity about expression used in the class. It implies that the teacher should be accustomed to use English while delivering instructions, asking and answering questions, greeting the students and giving explanations. 3. The implementation of giving feedback to the students. Giving feedback on the student’s pronunciation helped them to master new vocabulary well in terms of pronouncing the words. It also helped them recognize their mistakes or errors so that the teacher needed to give feedback to the students while in the learning process and in the end of the class. 4. The implementation of asking the students to work in pairs and large groups helped the students to raise their self-confidence and willingness to be actively involved in the teaching and learning process. It implies that the teacher has to encourage the students to work in pairs and groups so that they have companions to discuss the learning materials.