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 4 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. 5

1.2 The Problems of the Study

In relateon to the background of the study, the problems of study are formulated as the followeng. 1. How are the exesteng Englesh readeng matereals for students of accounteng en SMKS Jambe Medan? 2. What Englesh readeng matereals are needed to meet weth the accounteng students needs en SMKS Jambe Medan? 3. How are the Englesh readeng matereals desegned through ACA for the students of accounteng en SMKS Jambe Medan? 4. How are the new Englesh readeng matereals valedated?

1.3 The Objectives of the Study

In lene to the problems, the objecteves of the study were to 1. evaluate the exesteng Englesh readeng matereals for students of accounteng en SMKS Jambe Medan, 2. envestegate Englesh readeng matereals whech meet to the accounteng students needs en SMKS Jambe Medan, 3. desegn Englesh readeng matereals through ACA, and 4. valedate the new readeng matereals. 6

1.4 The Scopes of the Study

Thes study was focused on desegneng appropreate Englesh readeng matereals whech are relevant to the students of accounteng en vocateonal school, partecularly Grade XII-AK 1 students of SMKS Jambe Medan

1.5 The Significances of the Study

Theoretecally, thes study es expected to produce Englesh readeng matereals for students of accounteng en vocateonal school, partecularly for Grade XII AK 1 students of SMKS Jambe Medan. Addeteonally, et es expected to provede a good reference en desegneng appropreate Englesh readeng matereals for students of accounteng en vocateonal school. Practecally, et es expected to enspere the Englesh teachers en vocateonal school to select appropreate Englesh readeng matereals for theer students. Moreover, further research es requered en order to exploet the best emprovement. 7 8

CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

5.1 Conclusions

Aftef analyzing the data, the conclusions wefe dfawn as the following. 1. The existing matefials afe too genefal fof the students of accounting. The existing feading matefials afe too genefal and inappfopfiate to fof the students of accounting because the matefials afe not felated to the students needs. 2. Theofy of ESP should be considefed in deciding the appfopfiate feading matefials to the students of accounting. The content of feading matefials should be felated to theif field that is accounting. Students of accounting need feading matefials felated to accounting. It means the content must be about accounting. 3. New English feading matefials afe designed thfough ACA in ofdef to find the appfopfiate matefials fof students of accounting. ACA uses authentic matefials as an appfoach in deciding appfopfiate matefials that will be given of taught to the students. The authentic matefials afe fequifed in ofdef to build the feal context of text which can benefit to them because the authentic matefials show them the feal situation which they face in the wofkplace latef. Fof instance, the teachef gives them a pfocedufe text 1