DEVELOPING READING MATERIALS FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS BASED ON CONTENT AREA

Author(s):  
Anggita Kasanra Lubis And Rafika Dewi Nasution

Reading is the basic in learning every subject. The more understanding the text, the more information students can gain. However, the reading materials that the students use is not appropriate based on syllabus. Therefore, the reading materials should be developed to fulfil the syllabus and the students' needs also. Because English is included Content Area Reading, so the development of reading materials is based on content area which focus on strengthen the vocabularies, specifically the unfamiliar ones, by giving glossary and related pictures. The developed text is only focus in the first semester which is descriptive and recount text. The research was conducted at SMP Muhammadiyah 7 Medan. The data was taken from interviewing the English teacher and distributing questionnaires for 30 students in grade VIII-4. The data showed that students need materials which is related to their environment and constructed by familiar vocabularies. Based on the result of the study, conclusion and suggestion are directed to the English teacher who is teaching in that school to provide reading materials based on syllabus and students' needs regularly.

Author(s):  
Anggita Kasanra Lubis ◽  
Busmin Gurning ◽  
Rafika Dewi Nasution

Reading is the basic in learning every subject. The more understanding the text, the more information students can gain. However, the reading materials that the students use is not appropriate based on syllabus. Therefore, the reading materials should be developed to fulfil the syllabus and the students' needs also. Because English is included Content Area Reading, so the development of reading materials is based on content area which focus on strengthen the vocabularies, specifically the unfamiliar ones, by giving glossary and related pictures. The developed text is only focus in the first semester which is descriptive and recount text. The research was conducted at SMP Muhammadiyah 7 Medan. The data was taken from interviewing the English teacher and distributing questionnaires for 30 students in grade VIII-4. The data showed that students need materials which is related to their environment and constructed by familiar vocabularies. Based on the result of the study, conclusion and suggestion are directed to the English teacher who is teaching in that school to provide reading materials based on syllabus and students' needs regularly. Keywords: Developing, Reading Materials, Content Area


Author(s):  
Dinar Martia Azizah ◽  
Sugirin Sugirin

The research objectives aimed by this research are: (1) find out about Junior High School students need for environment-based supplementary reading materials; and 2) develop environment-based supplementary reading materials that are suitable for the students. This study is a research and development. The subjects involved in this research and development are eight grade students of a junior high school. The procedures in this research follow the modified research and development steps proposed by Borg & Gall into four development procedures. The steps of the modified research procedures were the exploration stage that included need analysis; the prototype development stage included the stages of planning and developing the format/draft; revision stage was completed by performing an expert judgement; and finalization stage that produced a final product. This supplementary reading is developed into 3 units. Each unit consists of list of new vocabularies, comic, main text and exercises. The developed texts are recount, descriptive and narrative. These texts convey how the relation between human and environment should be. The last part of each unit is by doing exercises that have a purpose as a confirmation.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 154-174
Author(s):  
Dinar Martia Azizah ◽  
Sugirin Sugirin

One such effort toward this is the development of environment-based supplementary reading materials for students. In accordance with this, the objectives of this research are: 1) to investigate the need of junior high school students for environment-based supplementary reading materials; and 2) to develop environment-based supplementary reading materials suitable for these students. The subjects of this research and development were eighth grade students of a junior high school. The procedure utilized is a modified version of the research and development steps proposed by Borg & Gall and included four development procedures. The stages of this modified procedure were: 1) the exploration stage, including need analysis; 2) the prototype development stage, including planning and developing the format/draft; 3) the revision stage, using expert evaluation; and 4) the finalization stage. The resulting supplementary reading material has been developed into 3 units, with the texts being recount, descriptive, and narrative. Each unit consists of a list of new vocabulary, a comic, a main text, and exercises. The exercises at the end of each unit have the purpose of confirmation.The texts aim to convey an ideal relationship between humans and environment.


Author(s):  
Nora Ronita Dewi ◽  
Juli Rachmadani Hasibuan ◽  
Masitowarni Siregar ◽  
Anggraini Thesisia Saragih ◽  
Dicki Darmawan

The aim of this study was to develop listening media for Grade VII of Junior High School Students. This study was conducted by using 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 the study was Grade VII of SMP Negeri 7 Medan. The data were gathered by conducting interview to English teacher and distributing questionnaire to 1 class grade VII consists of 30 person to get the students’ needs. The interview and questionnaire results prove that the students needs English Listening Media which can motivate and encourage the students to speak actively in English. The product has been validated by experts. The result of the product was an E-learning media named Moodle Cloud and all the features which was categorized  as an  relevant media since the validation score of the media was 93.55%.


Author(s):  
Natasya Lia Aldilla Sitorus Pane ◽  
Sumarsih Sumarsih ◽  
Tiarnita Maria Sarjani Br. Siregar

This study deals with developing the writing paragraph through quickwriting for junior high school at smp swasta pahlawan nasional. The objectives of this study were to find out to improve the students’ ability in writing paragraph of grade VIII students by using quickwriting strategy. Data data of the research was taken from the secondary grade of Junior High School Students at SMP Swasta Pahlawan Nasional Medan, which is taken from one class, contain 33 student. The data in this research collected by using interview and questionnaire. The interview and questionnaire will be given to collect the students’ need, problem and interesting in learning English, particularly in writing and using quick writing in teaching and learning.  In the teaching-learning process the teacher should prepare before conducting the lesson. The first is classroom procedures in teaching-learning process. Classroom procedures used by English teacher are opening, quickwriting, main activities (exploration-elaboration-confirmation), closing. There are some problems faced in the teaching-learning process. The problems faced are problem in developing idea, organizing idea, difficulties in vocabulary, tenses, and grammar, different capability of the students, and limited time. The consequently, the teacher should give solutions to cope the problems faced in teaching-learning process. So, the teacher should be creative to minimize the problem faced in teaching-learning process in order to make the students enjoy with the materials and develop student’s ability. Keywords : writing paragraph, quickwriting


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sudiyo Widodo ◽  
SriWiyata -

Modules are teaching materials arranged systematically and attractively which include material content, methods and evaluation of learning that can be used independently by students to achieve the expected competencies. The results showed that character-based learning in class VII junior high school students was less than optimal and did not contain noble values in students so that character in students was not formed and needed to be developed today. Research on character-based module development in SMP class VII students with character content. The research subjects were 35 grade VII students in the first semester of the 2018/2019 academic year. The results showed that as many as 25 students were active and most of them had reached the KKM score of 85%, while the absorption of students in understanding language was 82.5%. Thus the Pancasila and character-based civics education module when applied to junior high school students gets good grades.


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