These students should still and have to improve their productive skills, i.e both sentences and speech besides maintaining what they have
learned. This is because they cannot solely rely on what they have learned only right here and right now.
This respondents need to maintain their skill and keep learning more and more on further and higher idiomatic expressions and also other
aspects of English language, since there are too many other things every English learner need to learn, if they want to be fluent in English.
These respondents is a good model for others to copy and follow. They learn basic two-word idiomatic expressions perfectly and speaks
natural English. This is an indicator that mastering the basic two-word idiomatic expressions influence her speaking, both fluently and naturally.
Their fluency is the one that should then be upgraded, for fluency is one the most significant parts in communication.
4. Last but not least, the general result is not that bad. The lowest score is
fair, which indicates that the gap of the respondents is still small. In other words, the average knowledge of the respondents about the basic two-
word idiomatic expressions is still fairly good.
B. Suggestion
The research findings indicate a few steps have to be taken by those who can take the advantage of this research.
1. The students
The students who take part in this research are called respondents. They represent the whole students of SMP Negeri 87 Jakarta. They find their
own category based on their ability in speech using the basic two-word idiomatic expressions. The section as the consequence of the result of the
observation divides those into the category they fit in. This will facilitate for the suggestion extended for them.
a. The very good respondents. These are students who come into the
very good category; they have to upgrade themselves to be excellent, for even though they are very good they still have the basic knowledge
of two-word idiomatic expressions. This means steps of a learning ladder must be taken so as to reach the top and be the best speakers of
English. A regular English forum might need setting up. It is going to
accompany and take them to the next scale, i.e. excellent scale. Besides that, they probably needs that kind of forum the most to apply
their skill, improve their English, and have and English medium that anyone needs to, at least, maintain something dear.
b. The good respondents. These are those whose mastery is good and
comes to the second-best one. They not only have to upgrade themselves but they need to find more guidance in their effort to be
better to formulate better way of learning the basic two-word idiomatic expressions.
Basic two-word idiomatic expressions are absolutely different from Indonesian one. One of its forms is popular saying, for example.
When we say ―memancing di air keruh‖ does not means ―fishing in dirty water‖ in English, but ―fishing in troubled waters‖. And
regardless of the difficultness in learning idiomatic expressions, one has to learn them whatsoever because they are daily parts of English
speech. c.
The fair respondents. These respondents may know basic two-word idiomatic expressions, but their knowing is not enough to build
sentences or give speeches. In other words, they need improvement by whatever program that is able to better their ability.
They are not supposed to despair, for nothing is impossible to reach in any possible thing like speaking using the basic two-word
idiomatic expression, or other fields in functional skills. Therefore, a program is needed to empower their speaking skills
using basic two-word idiomatic expressions and they also need to help themselves by, for instance, practicing more actively and learning
more intensively.
d. Finally, all respondents or students also need to cooperate in speaking
English with basic two-word idiomatic expressions to overcome their common problems. This will absolutely help them learn and command
basic two-word idiomatic expressions. 2.
The teacher In relation to students and their problems, teachers have to have a kind of
eagle eyes. They have to be vigilant for their students’ needs. Concerned with the above findings, eagle-eyed teachers can take the following steps
to improve the quality of their students or solve the problems faced by them.
a. Upgrade those whose skill have been very good to excellent by, say,
speaking English with them with more and more daily basic two-word idiomatic expressions. This surely helps them find daily basic two-
word idiomatic expressions. So, any time they meet their teachers, teachers would encourage them to use the expressions by saying, for
example, ―Would you turn off the light when you leave the classroom?‖.
―Correct practice makes perfect‖ should be the motto teachers imposing on them, so they keep on practicing two-word idiomatic
expressions till the problem is solved. They also should be notified of speaking skill can only be achieved by speaking only, not the other
way around, and so can the two-word idiomatic expressions. Hopefully, this step would effectively encourage them and it is
probably not too difficult for them to be encouraged better, since very good students have an inherent quality to develop themselves. Hence,
it is the teachers who have to formulate the best ways to help them improve their speaking skill with proper basic two-word idiomatic
expressions. However, the most effective one is always that teachers are committed to speaking English first, and in this case using the
basic two-word idiomatic expressions, among themselves and then to the students since students are like small children who will imitate all
