DEVELOPING ENGLISH COMPLEMENTARY LEARNING MATERIALS FOR GRADE-X STUDENTS OF THE MULTIMEDIA STUDY PROGRAM IN SMK NEGERI 3 YOGYAKARTA

Abstract

The objectives of this study are: (1) to describe the target needs of grade-ten students of the Multimedia Program of SMK Negeri 3 Yogyakarta; (2) to describe the learning needs of grade-ten students of the Multimedia Program; and (3) to develop appropriate learning materials for grade-ten students of the Multimedia Program. This study is Research and Development (R&D) research adapting the R&D model proposed by Borg and Gall (1983) (in Tomlinson, 1998). The subjects of this study were grade-ten students of the Multimedia Program. The steps of this study were conducting needs analysis, developing the course grid, developing the first draft of the materials, evaluating the materials, and writing the final draft of the materials. Two questionnaires were used to collect data; the first questionnaire was made to obtain the data for the needs analysis and the second was used to obtain data about the appropriateness of the materials through the expert judgment. The data of the two questionnaires were analyzed quantitatively using descriptive statistics. Results show that the target needs of grade ten students of Multimedia program are: (1) passing national examination; (2) being in advanced level to support their later job; and (3) understand English vocabulary. The developed material consisted of three units based on Curriculum 2013. Each unit has four main parts: title page, main lessons, intermezzo, and reinforcement. Based on the students’ learning needs, the input is in the form of dialogues and monologues (for listening), texts, explanations, vocabulary lists, and pictures. The activities come in two cycles, each applying the four steps of the genre-based approach: Building Knowledge, Modelling, Joint Construction, and Independent Construction. Based on the analysis of the data from the expert judgment, the mean score of all aspects of the three developed units, in the scales of 1-4, is 3.5 which is in the range of 3.25 ≤ x ≤ 4 and can be categorized as “Very Good”.

Key words: materials, multimedia, genre-based