DEVELOPING ESP READING MATERIALS FOR PHARMACY STUDENTS OF SMKF PHARMACAMEDAN

This study deals with the developing of ESP Reading materials for students of vocational school. The objectives of the study are to analyze the reading materials which are appropriately used for pharmacy students and to develop the reading text materials for pharmacy students for relevant materials which are appropriate with to the needs of Pharmacy students. The research was conducted by using Research and Development (R&D) method. The subject of the research was 2017/2018 students of the eleventh grade of class B at SMKF Pharmaca Medan. The number of the students was 33 students. The data of this study was collected by need questionnaire analysis, interview analysis, expert judgment and selective reading text. Need analysis questionnaire was calculated by using percentage to get the information of student’s need before developing ESP Reading materials particularly procedure text. Expert judgment data were calculated by using criteria interval of Expert judgment to know validity of the ESP reading materials which has been developed. The ESP reading material was in the form of reading text and reading skill which consisted of sixteen tasks. After the data analyzed, it was found that the experts’s judgment result was 4.4 which had a very good criteria interval and categorized as relevant.The result of the research to find that the developed ESP Reading material was a very good material to be used in teaching learning.

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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 MATERIALS FOR GRADE ELEVENTH STUDENTS IN SMK FARMASI YPFSU-MEDAN

10.24114/reg.v7i1.9182 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Caterin Grace Ivana Siregar And Siti Aisah Ginting

Keyword(s):

Research And Development ◽

Quantitative Data ◽

Qualitative Data ◽

English Teacher ◽

New Materials ◽

Need Analysis ◽

English Reading ◽

Reading Materials ◽

Procedure Text ◽

Gathering Data

This research aimed to develop appropriate English reading materials for grade eleventh students in SMK Farmasi-YPFSU Medan. The research was conducted by Research and Development (R & D) design by adapting Borg and Gall’s research theory (2003) through six steps, such as: (1) Gathering data and information, (2) Analyzing data, (3) Designing new materials, (4) Validating new materials by experts, (5) Revising, and (6) Final product. The data of this research were the existing reading materials and the results of need analysis. The sources of the data were the textbook, students and teacher. The class consisted of 30 grade eleventh students. The instruments for collecting the data were questionnaire, interview, and documents. The questionnaire was analyzed as quantitative data and the interview result was analyzed as qualitative data. The questionnaire and interview was done to get the students’ need. The interview and questionnaire results prove that the students need English reading materials which cointain English for pharmacy program. Thus, developing English reading materials were procedure text. The developed procedure texts were related to the pharmacy program. The products have been validated by experts. The average scores are 4,03 from English Lecturer and 4,57 from English Teacher. It means the developing reading materials categorized as appropriate or relevant for the grade eleventh students in SMK Farmasi-YPFSU Medan.

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THE CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT OF READINGMATERIALS IN ENGLISH ALIVE TEXTBOOK BASED ON SYLLABUS INDICATORS OF KTSP FOR THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS

10.24114/reg.v6i2.6393 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Syarifah Fitriani And Masitowarni Siregar

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Research Method ◽

Document Analysis ◽

Senior High School ◽

Reading Material ◽

Reading Materials ◽

Text Types ◽

Reading Text ◽

Generic Structures ◽

English Subject

The Objective of this study was to describe clearly about the conformityAssessment of reading materials in English Alive textbook for eleventh gradestudents of Senior High School with the requirements in the school-basedcurriculum (KTSP). The research method was document analysis. The data weregathered from English Alive textbook and the syllabus of English subject for theeleventh grade students of Senior High School. After obtaining the data, theresearcher analyzed the data from the reading material contents in the textbookwith the requirements specified in the KTSP by calculating the score of the datafrom the analysis. The findings of this research state that 85.7% of text types inthe textbook meet the text types specified in the KTSP, 93,7% of the readingindicators meet the indicators specified in the KTSP,100% of generic structuresmeet the requirements specified in the KTSP. The total score for the all of aspectsin reading material are 93,2%. It shows very good as the criteria of conformitylevel. Based on the results,the reading indicators, reading text types, and featuresof reading text types (generic structures) in English Alive textbook are alreadydeveloped in accordance with the requirements specified in the School-BasedCurriculum (KTSP).

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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 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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Optimizing EFL Learners’ Sensitizing Reading Skill: Development of Local Content-Based Textbook

English Language Teaching ◽

10.5539/elt.v9n5p1 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 9 (5) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Yudhi Arifani

Keyword(s):

Average Score ◽

Efl Learners ◽

First Semester ◽

Teaching Context ◽

Reading Material ◽

Reading Materials ◽

Reading Text ◽

Planning Development ◽

Development Paradigm ◽

Reading Skill Development

<p>The development of local wisdom based sensitizing reading material is aimed at penetrating one of the imperishable gaps between authentic and non-authentic reading materials dispute in an EFL teaching context. Promoting EFL learners’ needs for the first semester students of English department at university level, who rarely or even never have a direct contact with native speakers, with meaningful and contextual reading textbook in an EFL setting is worth contributing. This study utilizes research and development paradigm within four stages, namely planning, development, try-out, and textbook revision. The textbook development resulted fifteen chapters containing fifteen local reading passages from various famous local tourism objects, famous public figures, cultures, traditional cuisines, and music. Each chapter encompasses eight exercises generated from the reading text itself with approximately from 400 to 600 words. Those exercises cover picture reading preview and identification, lexical sets, collocation and formation, literal, interpretive, and critical comprehension, and networking activity through interview and writing activity beyond the text. The average result of textbook validation from reading experts, English practitioners, and learners revealed the average score was 3.76 within the interval 1 to 4 and it was sorted out into ‘good’ category. Further, revisions toward grammatical error, diction, instruction clarity and picture lay out were also addressed and refined. As the textbook effectiveness toward the improvement of learners’ reading comprehension is not measured yet, so an experimental study is welcome for further research to address the issue of textbook effectiveness.</p>

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A NEED ANALYSIS ON ICT-BASED ENGLISH MATERIAL FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING OF READING FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN SOUTH BENGKULU

JOALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature) ◽

10.33369/joall.v2i2.5953 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 35-46

Author(s):

Margareta Margareta ◽

Safnil Safnil ◽

Irwan Koto

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

High School Students ◽

Field Test ◽

Mixed Method ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Language Skills ◽

School Students ◽

Reading Material ◽

Need Analysis ◽

Reading Materials

This research was aimed to find out ICT media are preferred by high school students in South Bengkulu in learning reading and to describe the reading materials should be used with ICT media. The research design was mixed method quantitative and qualitative with the subjects of this research were 302 high school students and 11 English teachers in South Bengkulu. The instruments of this research were questionairre and open-ended interview. The findings of the research revealed that (1) online ICT media was prefered by high school students in South Bengkulu in learning reading and (2) kinds of text became the reading material that should be used with ICT media. To suggest, a broader field test still needed to be done to achieve a better result and other researchers who are interested in the incorporation of ICT in learning teaching are suggested to conduct further investigation which possibly deals with other language skills.

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

GENRE Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS Unimed ◽

10.24114/genre.v7i2.12435 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Hotmian Sitorus ◽

Anni Holila Pulungan ◽

Nora Ronita Dewi

Keyword(s):

Research And Development ◽

Vocational School ◽

Computer Engineering ◽

Reading Material ◽

English Reading ◽

Reading Materials ◽

Scientific Approach ◽

Questionnaire Result ◽

Reading Text ◽

School Computer

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 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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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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