DEVELOPING VIDEO MEDIA AS LISTENING SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS FOR THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS’

Abstract

The current study is aimed at identifying the needs of grade-7 students of the junior high school in terms of English teaching and learning contexts and developing the appropriate listening lesson materials and media for the seventh grade students of the junior high school.

The study belongs to Research and Development (R&D) research. The subjects of the study were grade-7 students of the junior high school in the academic year of 2016/2017. The procedure adapted the ADDIE research design (Branch, 2010). The steps of research were: (1) conducting needs analysis, (2) designing a course grid, (3) developing listening materials and media, (4) evaluating the developed materials and media, and (5) revising the final draft of the materials. The needs analysis was conducted by distributing questionnaires to the students and interviewing the English teacher. Data were in the forms of quantitative data from the questionnaires and qualitative data from the interview. The results were then used to develop a course grid as the guideline to develop the units of materials and media. The developed products were then validated using expert judgment questionnaires. The questionnaires were analyzed using descriptive statistics, while the semi-structured interview was transcribed and interpreted.

The findings reveal that the students need more relevant materials and media to help them learn listening skills. The research products are listening materials and learning multimedia which contain video recordings for the students and teachers in the listening lesson. Each unit covers pre-listening, extensive listening, intensive listening and post-listening. The topics are derived from Curriculum 2013: self-introduction and information about public buildings and jobs. The task settings are varied from individual to group discussions including monologue and dialogue videos, audio recordings, and the listening activities which can be used autonomously. The overall results of the evaluation show that the mean value is 3.54 which falls into the category of “Very Good”. It implies that the developed materials and media are appropriate to be implemented in the listening lesson process for grade VII students.