5 should be applicable and based on the students’ need. The class activity should be
interesting so that the students will be more interested. Based on those reasons, the writer will apply Quantum Learning which is
proposed by DePorter and Hernacki 1992 as an approach to raise the students’
motivation in learning English more and to make the students have better understanding on the materials. This can be suitable for the students because
Quantum Learning has several principles. Those principles are: everything speak, everything has its purpose, experience before label named, respect to every effort,
and celebrate the achievement DePorter, Readon, and Singer-Nourice, 1999. Those principles can be used to design a set of materials for the students in
learning English. Besides, it is suitable to increase their motivation and to make them easily and happily in learning English. Therefore, the writer decides to
analyze the process of teaching-learning in SMP PL Bintang Laut especially for the seventh grade and develop the suitable material in learning English using the
Quantum Learning principles.
B. Research Problem
Based on the background of this study, the problem in the English class for the seventh grade of junior high school can be formulated as:
1. On the basis of Quantum Learning principles, how are the designed materials
that can be used to teach English to the seventh grade students of junior high school?
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C. Objective of the Study
The objective of this study is to develop the designed materials which are based on Quantum Learning principles that can be used to teach English to the
seventh grade learners.
D. Benefits of the Study
This study is beneficial for the teachers as the alternative teaching-learning designed materials based on Quantum Learning principles. Going further to the
students, the developed materials can help the students to learn English easily as their interest so that it can help them to increase their performance in the class.
This study is also be beneficial for the school as the information to the school about learning system using Quantum Learning principles. These designed
materials can be used as the idea to create the future teaching-learning strategy. Moreover, for the writer to add and to increase the comprehension of the writer in
the education field, so it can be used as the one method to teach the students in the education field especially in the teaching-learning process.
E. Definition of Terms
Some specific terms will be used in this research. In order to give the clearer boundaries in the research, some terms are defined below.
1. Quantum Learning
DePorter said that Quantum Learning is a good way to teach the students in order to make the students feel joyful and more comfortable. Quantum
Learning can be defined as empowering students to learn faster, more effectively
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and more joyful. Research shows that Quantum Learning techniques can enhance retention and performance, and that the students who use accelerated
learning methods become more effective learners. Quantum Learning is actually a herb or assemblies of various theories or views of cognitive psychology and
neurology programmingneurolinguistic much already there DePorter, Readon, and Singer-Nourice, 1999. In this study, Quantum Learning principles is the main
focus in designing the materials. The topics in the designed materials are suited based on the students’ need.
2. Integrated Skills
Integrated skills could be defined as the combination of two or more skills within a communicative task. By integrating the skills, teachers and learners make
the classroom work closer to real life, where more often than not we integrate more than one skill. In addition, some concrete reasons are given by Read 1985:
continuity, realism, appropriateness, variety, recycling, and confidence. In this study, the integration of four skills of language learning listening, speaking,
reading, and writing will help the students to learn English easily. 3.
Materials Development Materials development is basically dealing with selection, adaptation, and
creation of teaching materials Nunan, 1991. Materials can be informative informing the learner about the target language, instructional guiding the
learner in practicing the language, experiential providing the learner with experience of the language in use, eliciting encouraging the learner to use the
language and exploratory helping the learner to make discoveries about the
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language. As different learners learn in different ways, the ideal materials aim to provide all these ways of acquiring a language for the learners to experience and
sometimes select from. Materials development refers to all the processes made use of by practitioners who produce andor use materials for language learning,
including materials evaluation, their adaptation, design, production, exploitation and research. Ideally, all of these processes should be given consideration and
should interact in the making of language-learning materials. In this study, the materials will be developed to set new materials that can help the students to feel
interested in learning English. 4.
Seventh Grade Learners Seventh grade learners are usually the students in age 12 years old. That
stage is called a “transition period” Kimmel Weiner, 1985 because learners
change from the elementary school into junior high school, in the other sides, this is the transition from their childhood to adulthood. Students in that age are also
called as adolescent learners. According to Brewster, students in this age begin to develop their own sense of self and seek out information from parents, the media,
and peers that will help them define themselves further. In this study, the students of the seventh grade of SMP PL Bintang Laut will be the other main focus so that
the researcher can create a new set of materials to make them interested in the teaching-learning process of the English class.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF THE RELATED LITERATURE
