CHAPTER V
CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
Presented in this chapter are the conclusions and suggestions. The conclusions are drawn refers to the findings of this study presented in the previous chapters. The suggestions deal with several recommendations addressed to the students and lecturers in particular and next researchers in general.
A. Conclusions
After completing the research in a whole semester, several conclusions were employed here. They were described as followings:
1. It is about the research finding in students’ score. There is a significant progress in students’ result. In the pre-test, the reading ability of the students was very low. Almost none could pass the exam well. However, after they were given some treatments using the small group discussions, there is a significant improvement of the students’ average score in Genre-Based reading.
2. Another conclusion is about the students’ interest and awareness in Genre-Based reading class was totally enhanced by applying the small group discussions technique. It can be shown through the students’ interest and awareness checklist. Almost all of them love to read genre texts although they mostly admit themselves not as good readers.
B. Suggestions
The researcher would like to suggest the following issues:
1. To give some suggestions to those who paid much attention to this research to do the next research and to apply this technique in another reading class.
2. To combine the small group discussion technique with another assessment technique, such as peer or self assessment to get another finding.
3. To make teachers more creative to conduct teaching learning process, especially in genre-based reading class. She should not only use the monotonous method, but also other new interesting methods since students will get more interested in it. If the teacher can enhance the students’ interest and awareness, she can make them easier to learn.
4. To implement the small group discussions as a fun technique, so that the students aware about the importance of reading. Through reading, they can learn many new things.
