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Figure 4.3. The Implementation of Role Play
Figure 4.3 described that most of the respondents in the class had positive perceptions about the implementation of role play in the class. Based on the
respondents’ opinion, the implementation of role play was good. There were 60.89 from the total respondents who chose agree and 11.83 of respondents in
the class chose strongly agree as their choice. However there were a small number of respondents who had negative opinion about the implementation of role play in
the class. There were 4 of respondents in the class who chose disagree and 1 of respondents who chose strongly disagree as their choice.
The researcher also presented the detail data about the number of students who had positive and negative perception about the implementation of role play in
table 4.3.
Table 4.3. The Implementation of Role play No
Options Number of Students
1 Strongly Disagree
1 2
Disagree 2
3 Agree
24 4
Strongly Agree 4
N 31
Strongl y Disagree
1 Disagree
4 Agree,
60.89 Strongly
Agree, 11.83
Category 3 The Implementation of Role Play
Strongly Disagree Disagree
Agree Strongly Agree
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Table 4.3 showed the detailed number of respondents who had positive and negative perception by answering six statements on the third category which
stated about the implementation of role play. Based on the table, most of respondents also showed their positive perception about the implementation of
role play. It was proven by the number of respondents in the class who chose agree and strongly agree as their choice. However, there were a few respondents
who chose disagree and strongly disagree as their choice. There were twenty four respondents who had positive perception about the
implementation of role play in the class by choosing agree and disagree as their choice. Based on their opinion, role play was implemented well in the class. The
teacher gave a clear explanation before they had their performance. The students had enough time to prepare everything before they had their performances. The
students were able to work cooperatively in group. However, there were only two students who chose disagree and there were only one student who chose strongly
disagree as their choice. Based on the data of the questionnaire, the result were able to be
categorized into two major groups. The first group was a group who had good or positive perceptions which had average score between two point five to four and
the other group was a group who had negative perceptions which had average score are between one point zero to two point forty nine. The result from the data
was that most of the respondents in the class had positive perception on the use of role play as a language teaching technique. The students who had positive
perception on the use of role play as a teaching technique were able to enjoying
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the role play activity in the class. In addition, role play had many advantages to improve students’ speaking ability.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
This chapter consists of two parts. They are conclusions and suggestions. The first part deals with the conclusions of the research. The second part deals
with the suggestions for the students, the English teachers and the future researchers.
5.1. Conclusions
As what had been stated in chapter I that the aims of the research were to understand the implementation of role play in the class and to find out the
students’ perceptions on the use of role play. Based on the observation, the researcher found an interesting fact that the role play was implemented well. The
topic of the role play was based on students’ daily life and the learning material which had been given by the teacher in the class. The main topic was decided by
the teacher based on the learning material in the class. Role play allowed the students to give some improvements. It also made the students are able to speak
naturally. The students were asked to prepare everything, including the script and some properties. It forced the students to create everything creatively. The
students also enjoyed the learning process through role play. Based on their opinion, role play was one of the learning activities to increase their speaking
ability. The result of the questionnaire and interview were used by the researcher
to answer the second research question about the students’ perceptions on the use
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of role play. The result of questionnaire showed that all of respondents in the class had positive perceptions about the use of role play. It was proven from the
average score of the respondents in the class. The average score is between 2.50 to 4.00. In the first category which stated about the students’ perceptions on the use
of role play, there were 24 respondents or 80.48 from the total respondents had positive perceptions by choosing agree and strongly agree as their choice in this
category. However, there were 7 respondents who had negative perceptions by choosing disagree as their choice.
The second category was about the students’ opinion about the advantages of role play. 24 respondents or 80.29 from the total respondents had positive
perception by choosing agree and strongly agree as their choice. They realized that role play give some advantages especially to increase their speaking ability.
However there were only 7 respondents in the class gave their negative opinion about the advantages of role play. They chose disagree as their choice. There were
23 students or 76.08 from the total respondents gave their positive opinion about the implementation of role play. They chose agree and strongly agree as
their choice. However, there were 8 respondents 23.92 from the total respondents in the class gave their negative opinion about the implementation of
role play. They chose disagree and strongly disagree as their choice. Based on the result of questionnaire, it can be concluded that most of the
respondents in the class had positive perceptions on each category of statement in the questionnaire. It was proven by the average score of each respondent was
between 2.77 to 3.35. The scores were classified as positive perception category.
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By having the positive perceptions on the use of role play, the students were able to enjoy the learning activity in the class. The students can get some advantages
from role play. As what stated by Doff 1990 that role play allowed the students to have some experiments with language they have learned. Role play provides a
special opportunity to go beyond what has been taught in the class and to draw on the full range of their language competencies. Role play also can improve the
students’ self-confidence to speak in front of public. Based on the result of the interview, it could be concluded that as a
language teaching technique, role play helped the students to improve their speaking ability. Based on the students’ opinion, role play is an interesting and
effective technique that can be used in the class.
5.2. Suggestions
Based on the conclusions above, the researcher gives some suggestions to the English teachers in SMK Negeri 7 Yogyakarta, the XI grade students of
Tourism department in SMK Negeri 7 Yogyakarta, and the future researchers. The first suggestion is for English teachers in XI grade of Tourism
Department in SMK Negeri 7 Yogyakarta. Based on the questionnaire and observation about the students’ perceptions on the use of role play, most of the
students have positive perceptions about the use of role play as a language teaching technique. The students already had positive perception about the use of
role play. It is better for the teachers to give a clearer instruction to the students. It is just to make sure that all of the students understand what they should do for the
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role play. If it is necessary, the teacher should repeat the instruction for several times just to make sure that the students have understood the instruction.
The second suggestion is for XI grade students of Tourism department in SMK Negeri 7 Yogyakarta. The XI grade students of Tourism department agree
that role play gave many advantages for them. Based on the result of interview and questionnaire, most of the students had positive perception on the use of role
play. They could improve not only their speaking ability, but also their self- confident. The students should have enough time to practice. They should prepare
everything for their performances, so that the result will be better. They also should pay more attention to their grammar and pronunciation.
The last suggestion is for the future researchers. The researcher realizes that this study is far from perfect because of the limitation of the researcher. It is
better for the next researchers to have enough time to make some preparation to support this research. The next researchers can add the number of respondents to
get more data. The next researchers are also expected to be able to see this research topic from the different point of view.
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