Developing English Learning Materials for Grade Eleven Students of Pharmacy Study Programme of SMK / SMF “Indonesia” Yogyakarta

Abstract

The objectives of this research are: (1) to describe the target needs of the grade eleven students of Pharmacy Study Programme of SMK / SMF “INDONESIA” Yogyakarta; (2) to describe the learning needs of the grade eleven students of Pharmacy Study Programme of SMK / SMF “INDONESIA” Yogyakarta; and (3) to develop the appropriate English learning materials for the grade eleven students of Pharmacy Study Programme of SMK / SMF “INDONESIA” Yogyakarta. This research is categorised as a Research and Development (R&D) research. The subjects of this research are grade XI students of Pharmacy Study Programme of SMK / SMF “INDONESIA” Yogyakarta, the English teacher, and a materials development expert from State University of Yogyakarta. This research adapted the steps by Jolly and Bolitho (1998) which were conducting the needs analysis, developing the course grid, developing the first draft of the materials, conducting the materials evaluation or the expert judgement, and writing the final draft of the materials. The data was collected by distributing questionnaires and conducting interviews on both the English teacher and the students. There were two types of questionnaires used to collect the data. The first one was made to get the data for the needs analysis while the second one was used to get the data for the materials evaluation through the expert judgement process. The data for both questionnaires were analysed quantitatively using descriptive statistics, while the data from the interviews was analysed qualitatively by using the data analysis model as proposed by Miles and Huberman (1994). The final products of this research were three units of English learning materials for grade XI students of Pharmacy Study Programme. The units were developed by using the results of the needs analysis and Curriculum 2006. By considering the students’ learning needs, the input given is in the form of dialogue recordings (for listening), pharmacy-related texts, language and grammar explanations, relevant pictures, and also vocabulary lists. The topics of the units are related to the students study programme that are pharmacy field and daily life. Based on the analysis of the data from the expert judgement, the developed English learning materials are considered appropriate. The mean score of all aspects of the appropriateness is 3.44 which is in the range of 3.25 ≤ X ≤ 4 and can be categorised as “Very Good”.