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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

This chapter presents the conclusions and suggestions of the study.

5.1 Conclusions

After interpreting the findings in the previous chapter, I come to conclusions as follows: The preliminary observation showed that the type of activities proposed was not very motivating. The students were not offered an interesting media to keep give their learning attention. The examples and activities provided did not deal with their interest. The students need some activities that motivate them in learning speaking English through retelling a story. Thus, I tried to give them interesting media to attract their interest and motivation. I used ―flash animation‖ in this study to help the students to get and build their speaking idea easily The implementation of using flash animation as a media to teach retelling a story has proved to be successful. The steps in implementing the flash animations in the teaching learning process were; preparing the materials to teach retelling a story using flash animations, reviewing the materials on the flash animations, and asking students to do story retelling. I introduced the flash animation to the students, and then I asked t hem to watch the flash animation carefully. Then, I explained about the generic structure, language features of narrative text and steps to do story retelling. I played the flash animation for the second time and asked the students who, when, where, and what happened in the story. The purpose of this step was to give the students basic comprehension about retelling a story. Furthermore, I gave chance to the students to work in groups to discuss the information from the flash animation. Finally, I asked the students to perform their story retelling in front of class. The extent of students‘ learning behaviours using flash animation as a media in speaking class, particularly in retelling a story, was good. It was showed by the students‘ behaviours changes during teaching learning activities. The result of the checklist showed that the range value gathered by the students mostly in the range 2 and 3 which means sometimesmedium and oftenhigh. It was assumed that teaching story retelling using flash animations as a media attracted the students‘ interest and motivations. The average score of students‘ behaviours checklist in cycle 1 was 18.875, then increased to be 21.708 in cycle 2. It meant that the students‘ learning behaviours changed well. In addition, the analysis of questionnaire showed that there were positive responses from the students toward the use of flash animation in teaching retelling story. They enjoyed and liked it so much because it helped them to understand the story. Furthermore, the progress of students‘ score in five aspects indicated the students‘ ability in retelling story was improved. It was indicated by the students‘ performance in retelling story.

5.2 Suggestions