DEVELOPING ENGLISH READING MATERIALS BY USING  SCIENTIFIC APPROACH FOR THE GRADE X STUDENTS OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING AND NETWORKING PROGRAM AT SMKS TAMAN SISWA MEDAN

This study concerns on how reading text are developed for vocational school. This study was conducted by using Research and Development (R&D) design. It was started from collecting the data, analyzing data, designing course grid, designing new reading material by using Scientific Approach, validating by experts, and revising for final product. The new reading material contained of five stages namely; observing, questioning, exploring, associating, and communicating. The source of data of this study was the grade X students of Computer Engineering and Networking Program at SMKS Taman Siswa Medan consisting 24 students. Instrument of collecting data were observation, questionnaire, and interview. After analyzing data, the researcher got the students’ need in learning English in term of vocation that they have. The interview and questionnaire result proved that the students need English reading materials which contain English for Computer Engineering and Networking program. The materials which were developed were focused on descriptive text. The product had been validated by the experts. The average scores are 3,4 both from English teacher and English lecturer. It means the developing materials categorized as relevant for students of Computer Engineering and Networking program grade X.Key words: Research and Development (R&D), Scientific Approach, Reading, Material, vocational school, Computer Engineering and Networking program

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DEVELOPING ENGLISH READING TEXT MATERIALS IN CULINARY FOR VOCATIONAL SCHOOL

10.24114/reg.v5i4.5307 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Chrishna Sianturi And Muhammad Natsir

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Data ◽

Lesson Plan ◽

Vocational School ◽

Teaching Materials ◽

Generic Structure ◽

Reading Material ◽

English Reading ◽

Reading Materials ◽

Reading Text ◽

The Subject

This study is aimed to develop English reading text materials about describing people, food and culinary spot based on students’ needs of Culinary Art. This study was conducted by using Research and Development (R&D). The subject of this research was class X SMKN 10 Medan consisting of 32 students. The language skill was concerned on reading comprehension, particularly in descriptive text. Qualitative data consist of syllabus, lesson plan, and existing teaching materials. Instrumentation for collecting data were questionnaire, interview and existing materials. After analyzing the data, the writer got the students’ need in learning English in term of vocation that they have through questionnaire and interview. After the students’ need had been analyzed, the new reading materials was developed. The developed teaching materials were related to the vocation that the students had; it was culinary art. The development of materials followed six stages; those were gathering information and data, analyzing data, designing new reading material, validating new reading material, revising new reading material, and final product revision. Based on the result of experts’ validation, the developing English reading text materials was equipped with adding one example in each exercise, adding the representative picture in each chapter and adding the generic structure of descriptive text on the reading text. Based on the result of the study, it can be concluded that developing English reading text materials is appropriate (4.32 = 86.55%) to use by the students of Culinary Art.

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DEVELOPING ENGLISH READING MATERIAL FOR FASHION DESIGN PROGRAM IN VOCATIONAL SCHOOL

GENRE Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS Unimed ◽

10.24114/genre.v6i1.8504 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Zhana Sabrina Amelia ◽

Busmin Gurning ◽

Isli Iriani Indiah Pane

Keyword(s):

Vocational School ◽

Fashion Design ◽

Developmental Research ◽

Reading Material ◽

Need Analysis ◽

School Based ◽

English Reading ◽

Design Program ◽

Reading Materials ◽

Reading Text

This study concern on how reading text materials are developed for fashion design vocational school. The objectives of this research were: (1) to design English reading material for students in Fashion Design Program, (2) to develop English reading material for students in Fashion Design Program. This study was conducted by using developmental research (R & D). The subject of the research was grade twelve in SMK N 10 Medan consisting of 33 students. Instrumentation for collecting data was document, questionnaire, and interview. After analyzing the data, the writer got the students’ need learning English based on their program in school. Based on the students’ need analysis, it was got some reading materials from the students’ book are not appropriate with the syllabus. Then, there is reading material that should develop based on their syllabus and their need. After the materials had been designed, the reading materials were done. The results show of the 84.1% from the Expert – lecturer and 92.1% from the Expert – English teacher, for the new reading material and the categorized is “relevant” as the reading material criteria. The developed teaching materials were related to the vocation that the students had; it was fashion design program. The development of materials followed six stages; those were gathering information and data, analyzing data, designing new reading material, validating expert, revising new reading material from experts’ suggestion and developing reading material (final product). Keywords: Develop, Reading Text Materials, Fashion Design, Vocational School, Developmental Research

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DEVELOPING ENGLISH READING TEXT MATERIAL FOR STUDENTS IN SMK NEGERI 10 MEDAN

10.24114/reg.v6i1.5373 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Geby Cindy F.Sitanggang And Busmin Gurning

Keyword(s):

Research And Development ◽

Vocational School ◽

Teaching Material ◽

New Materials ◽

English Reading ◽

Reading Materials ◽

Reading Text ◽

Procedure Text ◽

The Subject ◽

English Subject

This study concerns on how reading text material are developed for vocational school. This study was conducted by using Research and Development (R & D) design through six phases; gathering information and data, analyzing data, designing new materials, validating by experts, revising, and final product. The subject of this research was class XI SMK N 10 Medan consisting of 22 students. Instrumentations for collecting data were questionnaire and interview. After analyzing the data, the researcher got the students’ need in learning English in term of vocation that they have. The data were gathered by administering interview and distributing questionnaire to 25 respondents to get the students’ needs. The interview and questionnaire results prove that the students need English reading materials which contain English for cosmetology major. Thus, developing materials were procedure text. The developed teaching material were related to the vocation that the students had; it was beauty major. The products have been validated by experts. The average scores are 4,25 from English subject teacher and 4,17 English lecturer. It means the developing materials categorized as relevant or appropriate for students of beauty major grade XI.

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DEVELOPING ESP TEACHING MATERIALS FOR THE STUDENTS OFTHE SOFTWAREENGINEERINGBASED ON PROBLEM BASED LEARNING AT THE AL-WASHLIYAHTELADAN VOCATIONAL SCHOOL

TABULARASA ◽

10.24114/jt.v12i2.3250 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Rodiani Fatmah Hasibuan ◽

Busmin Gurning ◽

Eddy Setia

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Software Engineering ◽

Research And Development ◽

Engineering Students ◽

Vocational School ◽

Vocational High School ◽

School Grade ◽

English Reading ◽

High School Grade ◽

Reading Materials

This study dealt with the development of English Reading Materials of vocational school, Al-WashliyahTeladan Medan, majoring Software Engineering. The objectives of this study were to: 1) find out language skill and materials are needed by the students of Software Engineering, 2) develop the English materials for the majoring in software engineering students at the vocational high school grade XII. This study was conducted by Educational Research and Development R&D (Borg & Gall, 1989). The data of this research were from existing documents and the result of interview with teacher and student. The results of the research conveyed that the existing reading materials were mostly irrelevant because the title and content of the material was not appropriate and was not required for the students majoring in software engineering. The new English reading materials and syllabus were developed based on the students need related to the workplace. The materials and syllabus were developed from the existing materials from teacher. The developing materials were validated by two experts.

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DEVELOPING ENGLISH READING MATERIALS BASED ONCONTEXTUAL TAECHING AND LEARNINGFOR GRADE X STUDENTS OF AUDIO VIDEO PROGRAM AT SMK N 1 PERCUT SEI TUAN

10.24114/reg.v7i3.12064 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Hera Parisa ◽

Indra Hartoyo ◽

Rika Rika

Keyword(s):

Research And Development ◽

Key Words ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Vocational School ◽

English Teacher ◽

New Materials ◽

English Reading ◽

Reading Materials ◽

Audio Video ◽

Video Program

This study aims to develop English reading materials needed by students of Vocational School and develop English reading materials for students of Audio Video Program based on Contextual Teaching and Learning. The research was conducted by Research and Development (R & D) design through six phases; gathering information and data, analyzing data, designing new materials, validating by experts, revising, and final product. It was conducted in SMK N 1 PercutSei Tuan, especially grade X. The data were gathered by administering interview and distributing questionnaire to 23 respondents to get the students’ needs. The interview and questionnaire results prove that the students need English reading materials which contain English for Audio Video program.The average scores are the first from English lecturer and the second from English teacher. It means that the developing materials categorized as suitable or approriate for grade X of Audio Video program. Key words: Research and Development (R & D), reading materials, Audio Video Program.

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DEVELOPING ENGLISH READING TEXT MATERIALS FOR CULINARY ART STUDENTS OF SMKN 1 KISARAN

10.24114/reg.v6i4.7561 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Sri Wirdani Wulandari And Zainuddin

Keyword(s):

Lesson Plan ◽

Learning Needs ◽

English Teacher ◽

Art Students ◽

Reading Material ◽

English Reading ◽

Reading Materials ◽

Reading Text ◽

The Subject ◽

The Mean

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Developing supplementary English reading materials for Vocational High School

International Journal of Humanities and Innovation (IJHI) ◽

10.33750/ijhi.v1i2.12 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 39-45

Author(s):

Hanswaty Noho ◽

Hasanuddin Fatsah ◽

Rasuna Talib

Keyword(s):

Computer Networks ◽

Vocational School ◽

Vocational High School ◽

Reading Material ◽

Need Analysis ◽

School Based ◽

English Reading ◽

Reading Materials ◽

Tenth Grade ◽

Academic Year

The main problem of this study was “What are students of the Vocational School of Computer Networks need in learning English?” and “How is the development of supplementary English materials for reading skill?” The objective aimed at describing the development of supplementary reading materials for the tenth-grade vocational school based on the 2013 curriculum. The subject was the computer networks students in grade tenth in the 2015/2016 academic year consisting of twenty-two students (five males and 17 females). This research used R & D (Research and Development) method. The data were gathered from a number of sources, including students’ need analysis of English reading materials in grade X in the students’ book of 2013 curriculum, supplementary development of the English reading materials for computer networks students, and expert validation of supplementary English reading materials and students’ response after used the supplementary English materials. The findings showed that more than 30% of students were difficult to read the computer networks text and to understand the meaning of the text. The result of students’ book analysis was none of the reading materials appropriate for computer networks department, mostly provided General English. In developing the supplementary English reading materials for computer networks students, there were four stands, in which the current research only applied three out of the four stands, including define, design and developed. This supplementary English reading material helped the computer networks students to learn English based on their need.

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READING MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT BASED ON PROBLEM BASED LEARNING GRADE X STUDENTS OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AT SMK SINAR HUSNI MEDAN

10.24114/reg.v7i4.12070 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Nisfu Sari ◽

Busmin Gurning ◽

Juli Rachmadani Hasibuan

Keyword(s):

Research And Development ◽

Group Discussion ◽

Problem Based Learning ◽

Material Development ◽

Reading Material ◽

English Reading ◽

Reading Materials ◽

The Subject ◽

Active Investigation ◽

Vocabulary List

The aims of this research were: (1) to find out the suitable the reading materials for grade eight students of SMP N 1 Kotapinang, (2) to find out how to design English reading materials based on problem based learning which is suitable to the needs of students of SMK Sinar Husni Medan. The research was conducted by Research and Development (R & D) design through six stages; gathering information and data,analyzing data, designing materials, validating by experts, revising, and final product. The subject of this research was class X students of SMK Sinar Husni Medan consisting of 38 students. The instrumentations for collecting the data were questionnaire and interview. After , anlyzing the data, the researcher got the students’ needs. The data were gathered by administering interview and distributing the questionnaire to 38 students to get the students’needs. The interview and questionnaire results proved that the students needs English reading materials which cointain English relating to their daily life environment. Thus, developing English reading mateials were descriptive text. The products have been validated by experts. The average scores are 5,17 from English Lecturer and 4,68 from English Teacher. It means the developing materials categorized as relevant or appropriate for Grade X Students of SMK Sinar Husni Medan. This research developed Problem Based Learning materials. It covers reading skill and consists of introduction, main lesson and reinforcement tasks. The input was in the form of written texts, vocabulary list and grammar explanation. The students were encouraged to do discussion and involve in active investigation to solve and do tasks. Most of the tasks are done in a small group discussion and in pairs. Based on the results of materials evaluation, the content, language, presentation and graphic of the developed materials are considered appropriate. Keywords : Research and Development (R & D, Problem Based Learning ,Descriptive Text

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DEVELOPING ENGLISH READING MATERIALS FOR LIGHT VEHICLE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

10.24114/reg.v6i1.5375 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Imamul Khaira And Anni Holila Pulungan

Keyword(s):

Lesson Plan ◽

Learning Needs ◽

Vehicle Engineering ◽

Historical Building ◽

Reading Material ◽

English Reading ◽

Reading Materials ◽

Engineering Department ◽

Reading Text ◽

Light Vehicle

This study is aimed to develop English reading materials for vocational school.This study was conducted by using Research and Development (R&D). Thesubject of this research was Grade X students of Light Vehicle EngineeringDepartment of SMK YPT Pangkalan Brandan consisting of 22 students. The dataconsist of syllabus, lesson plan, syllabus and existing materials. Instrument ofcollecting data were questionnaires and interview which were used to collectinformation about students’ needs and learning needs. The need analysis showedthat 81.8 % of students had difficult to understanding English reading text becausethe text is not relevant, difficult to understand the structure of word and sentencesin reading text and difficult to conclude the reading text. The evaluation ofexisting reading materials showed that the existing reading materials are notintended for students of Light Vehicle Engineering Department. The existingreading materials are intended for all vocational students. After the students’ needand reading materials had been analyzed, the new reading material was developedthat considering the students’ need and the relevant with vehicle. The genre of thereading texts which were developed is descriptive text. Based on basiccompetence, kinds of descriptive text which developed are describing people,tourism place, and historical building. The product of this study consists of fivechapters which titles are Soichiro Honda, Museum Angkut, Coventry TransportMuseum, TMII Transport Museum, and Cadillac Ranch. The product wasvalidated by an English teacher and an English lecturer with the mean score is 4.1from 5. The product is categorized as “Good and Relevant” reading materials.

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Developing Reading Comprehension Materials For Reading 1st Course In The Second Semester Of Social And Politic Science Faculty At Mahendradatta University

Jurnal Ilmiah Cakrawarti ◽

10.47532/jic.v3i2.200 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 48-53

Author(s):

I Made Arka

Keyword(s):

Reading Comprehension ◽

Research And Development ◽

Second Grade ◽

Career Women ◽

Science Faculty ◽

Reading Material ◽

Text Organization ◽

Reading Materials ◽

Basic Competency ◽

Good Reading

This study aimed at developing good reading comprehension materials for reading 1st course in second semester of Social and Politic Science Faculty at Mahen- dradatta University. It was developed by using the Research and Development proposed by Sugiyono (2010). The content of the product was based on Competency Standard and Basic Competency mentioned in the syllabus. The reading materials which have been provided for the second grade of reading 1st course in second grade of Social and Poli- tic Science Faculty at Mahendradatta University based on the criteria of a good reading material, involved the reading comprehension materials for reading 1st course that are relevant to convey the topic of (1) Grief and Escape, (2) Speech Production, (3) Career Women, (4) Visiting Bali, (5) “Ada Apa dengan Cinta?”, and (6) How to make Ice Cream. The reading comprehension materials, which should be developed, involved the skill of(1) understanding text organization, (2) inferring, (3) evaluating the text, (4) predicting,(5) understanding the writer’s style, and (6) dealing with unfamiliar words. The reading materials were corrected by the expert judges and field tested. The product, which was in the form of reading materials, was tried out twice. Firstly, it was tried out to the twenty students of the second semester and one lecturer Mahendradatta University. The result of the analysis showed that there were some invalid items. Then, the product was revised. Secondly, it was tried out in the second semester and two lecturers Mahendradatta Uni- versity. The results of the analysis showed that all of the items were valid. The product did not need to be revised again. Therefore, it could be used for reading 1st course in second semester of Social and Politic Science Faculty at Mahendradatta University.

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