CHAPTER V
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS
This chapter consists of two sections. The first section discusses the conclusion drawn from the findings and analysis, and the second section discusses the suggestions for the teacher, students, institution, and future research.
1.1 Conclusion
right prepositions of time and place, using simple sentences, using compound sentences, and using complex sentences.
To overcome the problems, both the teacher and the students employed several ways including teacher-self initiated solutions, students-self initiated solutions, and students’ peer-feedback. Teacher-self initiated solutions cover written and spoken feedback. Student-self initiated solutions are of editing, proof-reading, and conferencing with the teacher. Students’ peer-feedback is related to peer-correction and peer-evaluation.
1.2 Suggestions
The following suggestions are given to have a favor in solving the problems. Moreover these suggestions are expected to support the case of language proficiency elsewhere in general and will be useful for EFL teaching, especially for teaching writing.
5.2.1 For English/EAP Writing Teacher
English/EAP Writing teachers should play different roles when giving feedback (Harmer, 2004: 109):
a. Examiner, who sets class tests or mark practice papers for public exams their students are taking. The students will justifiably expect some kind of an objective evaluation of their performance.
c. Assistant, who helps the students along.
d. Resource, that is available when the students need information or guidance. e. Evaluator, who says how well things are going so far.
f. Editor, who helps to select and rearrange pieces of writing for some kind of publication
5.2.2 For IELTS candidates or/and English students
The students IELTS candidates or/and English students must: a. Have a high motivation to study English
b. Be active and creative students. Nowadays there are so many learning materials that can be downloaded from many sites, even free of charge, for practicing your English/IELTS test more
c. Study English frequently
d. Practice English and do the drills and exercises
e. Appreciate the teachers as the advisors, evaluators, guides, and masters f. Create an English interaction in or out of the classroom
g. Keep on practicing since there is no magic wand to improve your English/your IELTS band instantly
5.2.3 For Institution
a. Redesign the schedule of the course b. Review the materials
5.2.4 For Further Research
Given the small number of the sample size, it is difficult to extrapolate the
results from the current study to other cases of L2 writing. In addition, because the graph used in the study may not be representative of all graphs used in Task 1 of IELTS Academic Writing, the generalization of the finding is also problematic. Ideally, this type of L2 writing study is repeated with using different graphs to confirm the results of the present study.
