Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Developing Instructional Materials on English Speaking Skill for English Conversation Club (Ecc) of SMA 45 Purwodadi Pasuruan

By Mohammad Hanif MZ


English has increasingly become the medium of communication around the world both in local and global contexts. The realization of importance of English highlights the necessity of every country to have its people become better equipped with English performance. English is used in almost every part of lives; Brown (200, p. 118) states that English is not frequently learned as a tool for understanding and teaching in US or British culture values.
English language teaching professionals has increased worldwide. The importance of English has also sparked a growing interest in the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL). The relation of the need in teaching and learning English is constantly improved. One aspect of the improvements and the success of the teaching and learning English are the instructional materials. Mandey (1988) states that good text book gives great support to the success of English learning to prepare and conduct teaching, teacher needs textbooks.
Textbooks are also important for students who don’t have textbooks with them during the teaching and learning process will not be able to follow the lesson well. Brown (200, p. 136), questions the quality of classes without books, pictures, charts, and technological aids. We could have speaking in the conversation class, role-play, and discussion, and the most common materials support for language instruction comes through textbooks.
As other schools, SMA 45 Purwodadi Pasuruan some positive aspects, the school has also some problems which should be solved, especially with the English instructional materials, the researcher will develop his teaching speaking materials of conversation class. He felt that his class is not as good as before; it is because there are many problems and should be solved. The first problem is the boredoms; the students felt that the materials are not interesting anymore and some topics are needed to be refreshed or renewed. And the second one is the materials are not conducted structurally, in the instructional materials before, there is no chapter of the materials, so the materials made the teacher confused to rearrange the material before entering the class.
The third one is the students needed new many vocabularies which are placed in the back of each topics in the English instructional materials to make easy the students and can practice speaking skill with new word. The fourth one is the students needed the materials are divided to the students, so in their home they can study by themselves, and prepare the lessons for the next materials well.
The fifth is the material need guidance to pronounce or spell the vocabularies in that material. The materials need to state the curriculum 2013 as the guide of the study. By all the needs of the students, and the students’ problems which are faced in the teaching speaking materials of English conversation club (ECC), so the research will be conducted. The researcher wants to conduct his research by using Research and Development which is aimed at developing and validating educational products, like textbooks, syllabus, and instructional materials.

Statement of the problems
Statement of the problems of this study is to develop speaking materials for grade X of the first semester on English Conversation Club (ECC) in SMA 45 Purwodadi Pasuruan.in this sub title will state the solving problems, the first is renewing some topic with the scientific theme, the second one is giving some vocabularies with the spelling, and the third one is the material is still used KTSP will be changed into curriculum two thousand and thirteen which is used now. 

Objective of the Study
This study wants to produce appropriate instructional materials based on two thousand and thirteen (2013) curriculums to develop speaking skill for grade X Students on English Club in SMA 45 Purwodadi Pasuruan, the materials are developed to facilitate and maximize the teaching Speaking Skill on English Conversation Club (ECC), so that the teaching and learning process will be more meaningful and effective and the students will have more exposure on speaking skill.

Scope and Limitation of the Product
The product is limited for the study developing speaking instructional materials for grade X of the first semester on English Peaking Skill of English Conversation Club (ECC) in SMA 45 Purwodadi Pasuruan by using two thousand and thirteen (2013) curriculums. The materials will be  designed as fellow: (1) the materials are written under the criteria linked to 2013 Content Standard, (2) the materials relevant to the students level, that is tenth grade students of Senior High School 45 Purwodadi Pasuruan, especially for the first semester (3) the materials are organized in terms of language, e.g.: Chapter I Present Tenses: “Daily routines, Possession, Something special”. Chapter II Nominal sentence: “Describing pictures, Whose is it?, Family tree”. Chapter III Present perfect and past perfect: “Accounting for moods, the right experience for the job, true or false”. Chapter IV commands, requests, suggestions: “Directions, Suggestions, Cooking recipes”.  Chapter V Future tense: “Finding time to meet, how will the story end, the world tomorrow”.

Benefit of the Development
The benefit of this study is to develop conversation instructional materials between students and teachers as well as to some ones who are concerned with the teaching of speaking. The contributions are: (a) as an alternative source of speaking materials which support the syllabus and provide more exposure for the speaking class; (b) as one of the learning source that enlarge the student’s knowledge, making feel easy and interest in learning the language, especially speaking skill; (c) as one of the teaching materials that can be used to facilitate and maximize the teaching of speaking so that the learning process will get the needs; (d) the materials give some vocabularies and how to pronounce the vocabularies.

Review of related Literature
1.               Learning and Teaching Speaking in English Language
2.               Classroom Speaking Activities:
a.  Acting from a Script
b.Communication games
c.  Discussion
d.Prepared talks
e.  Simulation and rule-play
3.              The Essence of Speaking Skills:
a.         Talk as interaction
b.        Talk as transaction
c.         Talk as performance
4.               Principles for Teaching Speaking
5.               Theoretical Concept of The Speaking Materials
6.               Curriculum 2013
7.               Structure Curriculum 2013
8.               Developing Instructional Materials
9.               Previous Study

 


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