39 CHAPTER V
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
5.1 Conclusion
From the analysis, the writer conclude that:
1. Deaf children can’t define their environment because they only see not hear. So hand signal appear naturally among them. Deaf people usually
make hand signals for some words because they see and perceive the words. In hand signal, movement, shape and location could convey different meaning. So that, there are some variations in hand signal.
Words which have less or no variations because deaf people are familiar with the word. For examples dirty, tree, sea, dance, kill, water, river, salt
and rain. Words which have more variations happen because deaf people are not common and don’t understand the word. For example sharp,
smooth, star, animal, ashes, hunt, die, etc.
2. Family background, education, gender and age can influence the fluency of hand signal. Deaf people only learn a few signs from their family. Then, family condition can help deaf children’s education. Then,
educational institution takes important place in the ability of using hand
signal because most deaf people learn hand signal in school.
40 were divided into three age groups. There are 16-20, 21-25 and 26-30
years old. For some words, younger deaf convey more variations because they are familiar with the words and have different understanding in
perceiving the words. But for some words, younger deaf children convey more variations because they imitated the hand signal which already exist among them.
3. Several variations occuring among deaf people could make them confused. All respondents answer that they have experienced
misunderstanding when they have conversation with other deaf people. This may have occured because of unclear sign, quick movement, and different sign. But they can overcome this problem by learning from each
other. If they don’t know the meaning of a sign, they can ask and apply it in communication.
4. According to Hattyár and Szabó (2006) as cited in Hattyar (2008), hand signal in Indonesia is primer sign language which is made by government to use in deaf communities. They call this sign is SIBI (Sistem Bahasa
Isyarat Indonesia). However, deaf people are more familiar with bisindo (Bahasa Isyarat Indonesia) which culturally occurs among deaf people.
41 5.2 Suggestion
The writer suggests further research on the hand signal variation. That research can compare hand signal variations in deaf communities between two
cities or more. As I know, each city has their own sign variations because they use Bisindo. This difference doesn’t happen in all words, but several words. This kind
of research will help deaf people because deaf people can understand the typical
