DEVELOPING COMIC STRIPS-BASED SPEAKING TASKS FOR THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP N 2 TEMON IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2013 /2014

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The aims of this research were: (1) to find target needs of the students of SMP N 2 Temon,(2) to find learning needs of the students of SMP N 2 Temon, and (3) to develop appropriate comic strips-based speaking tasks for the first grade students of SMP N 2 Temon.
This was a research and development (R&D) research. The subjects of the research were the students of VII A of SMP N 2 Temon 2013/2014. There were two types of questionnaire used in this research. The first was a need analysis questionnaire distributed to the students to identify their target and learning needs. The second questionnaire was a materials evaluation questionnaire adapted from Instrumen Penilaian Buku Bahasa Inggris SMP to access the appropriateness of the developed materials. This research was conducted by following Jolly and Bollitho in Tomlinson (1998) with some modification. The first step was needs analysis done by distributing questionnaire to the students, and the result of the need analysis was the basis for developing a course grid. The course grid was used as the guideline to develop the first draft of the learning materials. The first draft was evaluated by material evaluator by distributing the second questionnaire. The result of the evaluation was analyzed through descriptive statistics.
Three units of materials were developed in this research. Each unit consists of introduction, main lesson, and reinforcement. Tasks ranging from 8 to 10 tasks focusing on developing student’s speaking skills. The input was in the form of comic strips, texts, vocabulary list and grammar explanation. The students were encouraged to participate actively by study, answer, and act them out comic strips. Most of the tasks were done in pairs. Based on the research findings of the expert, the content of the developed materials were appropriate. The mean score of all aspects of the developed materials was 3.68 which was categorized as good.

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