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CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
After presenting the research findings in the previous chapter, the writer will draw the conclusion and offer some suggestions based on the research that
was done in the seventh grade of SMP Paramarta Jombang.
A. Conclusion
Based on the classroom action research conducted in the seventh grade of SMP Paramarta in academic year 201420115; the research had an aim to improve
students’ descriptive writing through Role, Audience, Format, and Topic RAFT strategy, and the writer could make two conclusions that RAFT strategy has
successfully improved the students’ ability in writing descriptive paragraph in two cycles. Moreover, t
he students’ descriptive writing improvement can be seen from the increase of the writing score
s’ mean from 64.5 in the preliminary study, and 68.0 in the first cycle, to 73.5 in the second cycle where there were only 13
students 43.3, and 15 students 50 in the cycle one, to 27 students 90 in the second cycle who passed the KKM 70.0. From the observation checklist, the
students’ performance and participation increased in four meetings. In the first meeting of cycle I, there were one “Poor” score, four “Fair” scores, and four
“Good” scores and it increased to one “Fair” score, five “Good” scores, and three “Very Good” scores in the last meeting of cycle II. Furthermore, for the
questionnaire, the students’ response toward RAFT strategy was quite good and the data description from journal showed that the students’ participation increased
in each meeting especially in the first meeting of the cycle II when the teacher gave the students reading passages.
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B. Suggestion
Based on the conclusion above, several suggestions are proposed. They can be stated as follow:
1. English Teacher It is recommended for other English teachers in SMP Paramarta in academic
year 20142015 to use RAFT strategy as an alternative and interactive strategy in teaching writing. It is because RAFT strategy can help the students to write
their descriptive paragraph more focus because they know exactly what is their role as the writers, the audience who will read their writing, the format they
will use and the topic they will write. 2. Students
The students should be more motivated in learning English especially writing because writing is a difficult skill rather than the others. Moreover, the students
have to master many vocabularies and understand grammar if they want to be confident in writing using English. Then, the students must pay attention
during teaching explanation in the class, and they have to do the writing exercise to improve their writing skill.
3. Other researchers There are few researches conducting RAFT strategy, therefore more
researchers are expected to do further investigation in the field related to this research. The future researcher could use this study as a reference, develop the
implementation of RAFT strategy, or combine with other strategy to get better result.
