Determining Indicators How a set of instructional speaking materials using Contextual Teaching

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5. Material Development

After choosing the teaching and learning activities, the writer moved to the stage of material development. This stage focused on designing a set of instructional speaking materials. The findings from stage1 until stage 4 were used as a basis guideline in developing the material. The designing process involved Contextual Teaching and Learning’s principles in every single part of the process. The writer presented four units with the approximate time allocation of 2 x 45 minutes each unit. The students were expected to be able to accomplish the indicators meaningfully without any hesitations because of the limited time.

6. Evaluation

The sixth stage was the evaluation of the material designed. This evaluation aimed to discover the respondents’ feedbacks and comments. The findings of the evaluation stage would be used in the last stage of designing the material, namely revision. There were two explanation sections in this part. They were description of respondents and data presentation of materials evaluation. Each section is described as follows: a. Description of Respondents Three English lecturers of Sanata Dharma University were involved as respondents of materials evaluation. They have many years of experience in the education field. Their inputs on the materials evaluation were considered in revising the final version of the designed materials. 67 b. Data Presentations of Materials Evaluation The writer distributed three questionnaires to obtain feedback on the designed materials. The questionnaire consisted of a number of questions related to the appropriateness of students’ book and teachers’ book. The main questions related to students’ book were about learning indicators and learning materials. Meanwhile, the main questions related to teachers’ book were about the rationale of the designed materials, syllabus, lesson plan and teacher’s note. The writer also stated questions to gain comments and suggestions from the respondents. The questionnaire was divided into two parts. First part presented closed questions about the degree of respondents’ agreement. The degree of agreement was showed in number ranged from 1 to 4. The four degree of agreement is described as follows: 1 : strongly disagree with the statement 2 : disagree with the statement 3 : agree with the statement 4 : strongly agree with the statement Second part presented open question to find out respondents’ comment on the designed materials’ weaknesses and strengths and their suggestions for better designed materials. The findings of materials evaluation is summarised as follows: