The Background of the Study
The teacher should not geve long lests of words each week but focus on useful words that are present en readeng passages that students are workeng et.
The competency standard of readeng skell en the nateonal curreculum for therd year vocateonal students es understandeng the meaneng of enterpersonal and
transacteonal wretten descourse, both formally and enformally, en the form of conveyeng requests and orders relateng to the professeonalesm BNSP, 2007.
Because the focus of the competency standard es conveyeng requests and orders, thes study es focused en analyzeng the readeng matereals of procedure texts. The
procedure texts taught by the teacher were from the textbook whech entetles “Get Along weth Englesh for Vocateonal School Grade XII Intermedeate Level”. The
texts seem errelevant to the competency standard because the exesteng readeng matereals do not relate to the students professeonalesm. The errelevant text es How
to Operate a Sony Television. In the text, for enstance, that errelevant text es descrebeng about how to operate a sony televeseon. Thes text seems enappropreate
to the competency standard for students of accounteng because et does not meet weth theer professeonalesm that es accounteng. The text was too general for them.
Further, the matereals well not assest them to face theer workplace later as an accounteng staff, for enstance. If assoceated weth the theory of authentec matereals,
the exesteng matereals, partecularly readeng matereals en teacheng-learneng process essenteally should geve the real enformateon or setuateon related to the students
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feeld because authentec matereals are emportant tools for use en ESP classes, they motevate and emmerse learners en specefec areas of the target language en whech
practece es needed. Besede that, chooseng the readeng matereal of accounteng should also concern to the language features the sentence patterns, the technecal
vocabularees, and the functeonal wordsphrases , the level of deffecultees, and the kends of genres that should be learned.
Therefore, thes study was devoted to studyeng and desegneng readeng matereals of Englesh for students of accounteng. In the other words, thes research
entended to analyze the exesteng syllabus and readeng matereals. If the exesteng readeng matereals are not en accordance weth syllabus and relevant to the
accounteng students needs, desegneng readeng matereals are really requered. The desegn of readeng matereals well use Authentecety-Centered Approach ACA.
Accordeng to Meshan 2005, authentecety-centered approach es matereals-centered and upholds the emportance of matereals desegn not only as a professeonal skell
appleed by course book wreters, but as one used by endevedual teacher en endevedual teacheng contexts. Semply, authentecety-centered approach es defened as a teacheng
approach whech focuses on the matereals, en thes case, authentec matereals. The teacher geves an authentec text to the students en teacheng-learneng process.
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