Developing English Learning Materials for the 3rd Semester Students of Informatics Engineering Education Program at Yogyakarta State University

Abstract

This study is Research and Development (R & D). The subjects of the research were the 3^rd semester students of Informatics Engineering Education program in the academic year of  2013/2014 at Yogyakarta State University. The data collection was carried out by distributing questionnaires. The data were analyzed using quantitative data analysis.  The objectives of this research were (1) to identify the target needs of the 3^rd semester students of Informatics Engineering Education program at Yogyakarta State University in learning English,   (2) to identify the learning needs of the 3^rd students of Informatics Engineering Education program at Yogyakarta State University in learning English, and (3) to develop the appropriate English learning materials for the 3^rd semester students of Informatics Engineering Education program at Yogyakarta State University. Based on the research findings, the students learned English because they wanted to be equipped with sufficient knowledge of language functions used in informatics engineering context. Most of the students were at the level of beginner in terms of proficiency level. For the learning needs, most of the students wanted dialogue related to the topic of the unit and the same texts as given for the example as the input. For the learning activities, they liked to answer comprehensive questions, read dialogue, role play and write a text. The appropriate English learning materials for the students of Informatics Engineering Education program were developed into three units; each unit consists of 20-23 tasks. Every unit consists of several sections, namely introduction task, main task and reinforcement. For Unit 1, the topic is jobs, which consists of 23 tasks. The second unit is about social media, 20 tasks.  The last unit, the topic is work place,  21 tasks.