Erna Iftanti (2009) Developing reading comprehension materials based on the proposed reading comprehension syllabus for the students of English literature of Brawijaya University / by Erna Iftanti. Masters thesis, Universitas Negeri Malang.
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In teaching English a syllabus and teaching materials play an important role. Olshtain and Dubin stated that syllabus has utmost significant effect on selecting and developing materials (1986 28). In addition they said that syllabus is as vehicle through which the policy makers- Language Program teachers and learners-convey information to teachers textbook writes examination committee and learners concerning the program. When either a syllabus or teaching material is not available the objectives of the course can not be well achieved. Since there is not any syllabus for Reading Comprehension 2 and its teaching materials developed based on the learners and the teachers needs in S1 Program in English Literature of Brawijaya University it is necessary to develop RC 2 syllabus and RC 2 teaching material. As the objective of the study is to develop RC 2 syllabus and RC 2 teaching material the appropriate design of this study is Research and Development. This research was done based on Yalden model (1987) which was adapted by the writer namely Language Program Development (hereafter LPD).This LPD consists of some stages. They are Needs Survey Description of Purpose Selection/Development of Syllabus Type Production of a Proto-syllabus Production of a Pedagogical syllabus Development and Implementation of Classroom Procedure Evaluation. The subjects of this research were S1 students the teachers experts in teaching RC courses and developing RC materials. There are 3 (three) kinds of data that the writer obtained i.e. a). factual data b). opinions and c). suggestions. Three kinds of instruments were used in collecting those data namely documents which were used to get factual information questionnaire and interview that were employed to get opinions and suggestions. The ways to get the data were first by taking a look at the existing documents then by distributing questionnaires to the students the experienced RC 2 teachers and the experts in RC and at last by interviewing the teachers. The data gained from the curriculum are in general sense such as the code of RC 2 SBI 4116 the number of credit point 2 credit point the requirement of taking RC 2 the students has to passed RC 1 and the goal and objective RC 2 course is aimed at increasing the students mastery of reading strategies writing summary and providing the students with the ability to make critical evaluation from the reading texts. Then they are interpreted specifically in practice by using data obtained through questionnaire to the students asking about their interests/preference on reading texts and interview to the experienced RC teachers asking about types of texts the teaching and learning activities materials that are needed to be included and assessment. The data gained from questionnaire were changed into percentage. The highest number of percentage showed the students interest that need to be considered in selecting the types of texts in the RC 2 teaching material. The data obtained from interview were in the form of information opinion and suggestion. They were interpreted descriptively. Subsequently this result will be taken into account in developing materials for RC 2 based on the proposed syllabus From the collected data it was found that the types of text need to be included are general texts which are given in the first half of a semester and literary texts which are given in second half of a semester. RC 2 course that is coded with SBI 4116 has 2 credit points. This course is aimed at increasing the students mastery of reading strategies writing summary and providing the students with the ability to make critical evaluation. The requirement to take this RC 2 is that students have to pass RC 1. The reading strategies that need to be included are finding main idea finding topics of paragraphs previewing and predicting patterns of organization skimming scanning mapping outlining making inferences and summarizing. The teaching and learning activities teachers explanation and examples and students activities to do the exercises individually in pairs or in groups. The method of teaching is student-centered. In addition the assessment can be done through quizzes students cross-check mid-term test and final test. Meanwhile the type of syllabus appropriate to be used is communicative syllabus. After doing all stages of modified LPD adapted from Yalden it was designed RC 2 syllabus which is completed with course outline meeting schedule and lesson plans. The next step was developing RC 2 Syllabus into RC 2 teaching material. The evaluation of the products was done through validating syllabus and try-out of the RC 2 teaching material. Try-out of the products the pedagogical syllabus and the teaching materials was meant to state the level of difficulties usefulness effectiveness efficiency and attractiveness of the product to the users. The design of the try-out of the products was done through two steps The first step is individual evaluation by having teaching and learning RC 2 materials in order to see the difficulties effectiveness usefulness efficiency and the attractiveness of the products if they are related with the teaching and learning process. The second step was students evaluation by answering questionnaire to see whether the materials are valuable to improve their reading skills. Indeed the final products of this research are RC 2 syllabus and RC 2 teaching material. They are not perfect yet because try-out of the RC 2 teaching material was conducted only for 4 meetings. This was done because of the writer s limitation in term of time and energy. Therefore it is suggested to follow up this research by conducting research and development using better application of the adapted Yalden LPD. In addition it is also suggested to take this R D as the pilot research to conduct R D on RC 3 at S1 Program in English Literature Brawijaya University or the other different courses by using this model.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Sastra (FS) > Departemen Sastra Inggris (ING) > S2 Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris |
| Depositing User: | library UM |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jun 2009 04:29 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2009 03:00 |
| URI: | http://repository.um.ac.id/id/eprint/58329 |
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