DEVELOPING ENGLISH SPEAKING LEARNING MATERIALS FOR THE PERSONNEL OF SMALL-SCALE CRAFT INDUSTRIES AND DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY, TRADE, AND COOPERATIVES IN KEBUMEN DISTRICT

Abstrak / Ringkasan

The objective of this study is to develop suitable English speaking learning
materials for the personnel of small-scale craft industries and Department of Industry,
Trade, and Cooperatives of Kebumen district. The English speaking learning materials
are developed to fulfill the needs of the personnel for suitable English speaking learning
materials. The English speaking learning materials are used to develop the personnel’s
English speaking skill. They need to improve their English speaking competence in order
to be able to communicate with foreign buyers when they conduct craft exhibition in
international craft trade fairs.
The nature of this research is a Research and Development (R&D). The process
of developing the English speaking learning materials is preceded with needs assessment
by interviewing one craftsman and two officers of the department from Kebumen district
to find the learners’ needs in learning English. The information obtained from the needs
assessment then is used as the basis to develop the materials. After that, the developed
English speaking learning materials are tried-out to twenty participants that consist of
fourteen craftsmen and six officers of the department from Kebumen district. Evaluation
on the developed materials is then carried out by distributing questionnaire to the
participants after the try-outs of the materials. The aim of the questionnaire is to obtain
the participants’ feedback and opinions about the materials. The results obtained from the
data gathered by using questionnaire are used as the basis for making some improvements
to the developed materials. The stages of developing the English speaking learning
materials are as follows: 1) Conducting needs assessment 2) Identifying instructional
goals, topics, and general purposes 3) Writing the syllabus 4) Developing the materials
5) Trying-out the materials 6) Evaluating the developed materials 7) Revising the
developed materials
The developed English speaking learning materials are four units presented the
following topics: 1) Greetings and Offering Help 2) Mentioning Price 3) Bargaining 4)
Describing Craft Products. Each unit consists of Input, Content Focus, Language Focus,
and Communicative Task. The evaluation on the developed materials by using
questionnaire shows that the developed materials are suitable with the needs of the
learners in learning English. The Mean obtained from the data gathered by the
questionnaire is ranged between 2, 8 – 3, 4 which indicates that the participants favor the
materials.

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