DEVELOPING READING-WRITING LEARNING MATERIALS FOR THE STUDENTS OF YEAR X OF PHARMACY STUDY PROGRAM AT SMK/SMF “INDONESIA” YOGYAKARTA IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2012/2013

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The aims of this research were to find: (1) target needs of the students of SMK/SMF “INDONESIA” Yogyakarta, (2) learning needs of the students of SMK/SMF “INDONESIA” Yogyakarta, and to develop appropriate reading-writing learning materials for the students of SMK/SMF “INDONESIA” Yogyakarta.
This is a Research and Development (R&D) research. The subjects of the research were the students of X-D of SMK/SMF “INDONESIA” Yogyakarta in the academic year of 2012/2013. There were two types of questionnaires used in this research. The first was a needs 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 SMK to assess the appropriateness of the developed materials. This research was conducted by following Jolly and Bolithos’s model in Tomlinson (1998) with some modification. The first step is needs analysis done by distributing questionnaires to the students. The result of the needs 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 two materials evaluators by distributing the second questionnaire. The result of the evaluation was analyzed through descriptive statistics.
Four units of materials were developed in this research. Each unit consists of introduction, main lesson and reinforcement tasks ranging from 18 to 20 tasks focusing on developing students’ reading and writing skills. The input was in the form of texts, vocabulary list and grammar explanation. The students are encouraged to participate actively by answering questions, determining True or False, arranging jumbled sentences and writing short paragraphs. Most of the tasks are done in pairs. Based on the research findings of the expert, the content, presentation, language and lay-out of the developed materials are appropriate. The mean score of all aspects of the developed materials was 3.60 which is categorized as “Good”.

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