DEVELOPING SUPPLEMENTARY LISTENING AND SPEAKING MATERIALS FOR GRADE X STUDENTS OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS

Abstract

This research was aimed to develop the appropriate supplementary listening and speaking materials for grade X students of Senior High Schools. This was a Research and Development study. The subjects of this reserch were 64 students of Grade X of SMA Negeri 1 Klirong in the academic year of 2017/2018. The research procedure was the one adapted from Masuhara in Tomlinson (1998) and the steps were conducting needs analysis, writing the course grid, developing the first draft, getting the expert’s judgement and revising the units, and developing the final draft. In the needs analysis process, a questionnaire was distributed to the students and an interview was conducted with two English teachers. The data collection instruments used were a needs analysis questionnaire, an expert judgement questionnaire, and interview guidelines. The products of this research were a student book and a teacher book of supplementary listening and speaking materials for grade X students of Senior High Schools. The units were developed by referring to the steps of task-based instruction. Each unit consisted of Share It!,Vocabulary Builder, Let’s Practice!, Let’s Listen and Speak Up!, Let’s Take Action!, Challenge Me!, Time to Sum Up!, Self-Reflection, and Break for Fun. Based on the results of the expert judgement, the mean score of the materials is 3.91 which is categorized as "Very Good".

Keywords:  supplementary materials, listening, speaking, task-based language teaching