Let’s Practice 1. The students read sentences. Let’s Have Fun 1. The students play game.

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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTONS

This chapter consists of two parts, namely conclusions and suggestions. The first part deals with the conclusions of the study. The second part deals with the suggestions that are expected to help English teachers, especially for the English teacher of SD Negeri Dayuharjo and future researchers.

A. Conclusions

In order to develop a set of English vocabulary instructional materials based on Multiple Intelligences theory, the writer applied educational research and development RD. In educational research and development RD, there were a cycle which consisted of research and information collecting, planning, developing preliminary form of product, preliminary field testing, main product revision, main product testing, operational product revision, operational product testing, final product revision, dissemination and implementation, the process of this study referred to this RD cycle. Since this study focused on designing a set of materials, the writer only applied five steps of the RD cycle, namely research and information collecting, planning, developing preliminary form of product, preliminary field testing, and main product revision. To answer the second problem of the research, the writer designed a set of English vocabulary instructional materials based on Mulitple Intelligences theory for the fourth grade students of SD Negeri Dayuharjo. The designed materials 64 contained of eight units, topics, and titles. The unit and topics are Alphabets Unit 1, Greetings and Partings Unit 2, Numbers Unit 3, Hobbies Unit 4, Prepositions Unit 5, Things in the Classroom Unit 6, Direction Unit 7, and School Activities Unit 8. Each unit consisted of four parts, namely “Look, Listen, and Repeat”, “Let’s Practice”, “Let’s Have Fun”, and “Homework”. Look, Listen, and Repeat was pre-activity to introduce the topic and activate students’ prior knowledge. Let’s Practice was a part where students provided with activities to accomplish the knowledge they have already acquired. Furthermore, the various activities could activate students’ intelligences and facilitate them to learn vocabulary. Let’s Have Fun was the post-activity that provided students with simple and entertaining activities. It was also applied to remind students with the materials that they had already learned. The last part was Homework that provided students with an activity to review the materials in each unit. The selection of the topics was based on the curriculum and also considered the students’ need. The topics arrangement was based on the level of difficulty. In addition, the materials were developed based on the eight types of Multiple Intelligences. It meant that each teaching learning activity presented particular intelligences. Related to those explanations, the designed materials could be utilized to develop and improve the students’ major intelligences and activate other intelligences that they possess less.