Conclusions CONCLUSIONS, IMPLICATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS, IMPLICATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

This chapter provides information about conclusions of the research, implications and recommendations. The discussion of each point is presented as follows.

A. Conclusions

This research has two main goals: 1 to identify target needs and learning needs of grade ten students of Office Administration Study Program in learning English and 2 to design appropriate English speaking materials for grade ten students of Office Administration Study Program. These goals have been achieved as they are proved by the research findings. The conclusions can be drawn as follows. 1. The needs of grade ten students of Office Administration Study Program The needs of grade ten students of Office Administration Study Program are divided into two kinds of needs. They are target needs and learning needs. a. Target needs The students of Office Administration Study Program need English primary to help them in facing the workfield after graduation. There are some works related to the office administration which mostly needed English for communication. Some of them are handling a telephone call, handling guest, and delivering a presentation. However, 100 of the students stated that they rarely learned speaking in the class. They also used Curriculum 2013 textbook that its topics did not suitable with their study program. The students‘ goal of learning English is able to communicate in English to prepare them in facing the workfield. They preferred to have some language functions of handling a telephone call, delivering a presentation and handling guest. Those three language functions are the most preferred one. Further, the students wanted dialogues for the input text for listening and speaking activity. They also wanted simple dialogues with short texts ≤ 150 words. Besides, the students preferred to have games as the most wanted learning techniques in the class. They also preferred to complete the task in group. The students stated that a good English textbook should be colourful and full of pictures. b. Learning needs According to the findings, the learning needs can be concluded as follows. 1 In the listening activities, fill in the gaps of monologues or dialogues is the most preferred one. 2 In the speaking activities, the students wanted to act out the monologues or dialogues. 3 In the vocabulary activities, the students preferred to interpret the meaning of difficult words. 4 In the pronunciation activities, repeating after the teacher in pronouncing words is the most favourite activity. 5 In the teachers‘ role, the students wanted their teacher to give keywords while they were having difficulties. 6 In the learners‘ role, the students preferred to listen to the teachers‘ explanations. 2. The appropriate English speaking materials for grade ten students of Office Administration Study Program From the target needs and learning needs above, it can be concluded that the appropriate English speaking materials for grade ten students of Office Administration Study Program consists of three units which have been validated and each unit has the following characteristics. a. The title of the unit The title of the unit is Speak Up because a good title should specify the topic of the subject matter being discussed. b. Warm-Up The good activity in the beginning of the material should be able to introduce the topic and situation being discussed. That is why the materials provided Warm-Up section. c. Let’s Listen The listening activity should enable students to identify the language functions used in the text and to provide them with the speaking activities. In this developed materials, there is Let’s Listen cover the listening activities. d. Say It Right Pronunciation activities should enable students to pronounce the main words correctly completed with phonetic transcriptions. That is why Say it Right is developed in the materials. e. Word Bank The vocabulary activities should provide students some tasks to help them understand the words in context. Thus, Word Bank is included in the materials. f. Let’s Study The language learning activities should provide students explanations about language expressions and the structure of the grammar used in each unit. That is why Let’s Study is developed in the materials. g. Let’s Practice More Extra practices should provide students more tasks related to the grammar andor the language expressions explained previously. These are included in Let’s Practice More. h. Let’s Speak More In order to enable students to practice speaking with more fun speaking activities Let’s Speak More are developed. i. Summary Summary should contain a task that will enable students to recall their memory about what they learned in the whole unit. j. Reflection Reflection activities should enable students to measure how much they learn from the unit. These reflection activities are covered in the Reflection.

B. Implications