Selecting Teaching Learning Activities and Materials
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No The Respondents’ Opinion
Central Tendency N
Mn Med
Md 8
The exercises and activities enable students to learn reading comprehension and strategies easily.
5 4
4 4
9 The layout of the designed materials is interesting
for students and teachers. 5
4.2 4
4 10
In general, the designed materials are good and sufficient.
5 4
4 4
The data of the questionnaire showed that the tendency of the respondents’ opinions towards each statement of the questions was positive. The result showed
that most of the scores were more than 4. It meant that most respondents agreed that the designed materials were acceptable and appropriate to be implemented.
However, there were two points that were less than 4 and needed to be considered. The two points were 1 the level of difficulty of the exercises in the materials and
2 the variation of the types of exercises and activities. 2 Respondents’ Comments on the Designed Materials
The researcher provided some spaces for respondents to give their opinions, comment and suggestions. There were some comments given by the
respondents on the designed materials, in terms of the strengths and weaknesses. According to the respondents, the designed materials had some strengths as in the
following: - The materials were written completely and systematically.
- The step of each activity was explained clearly and they were easy to follow. - The reading materials chosen were good and interesting for students.
- All competencies and indicators were explained clearly in the lesson plan. - The materials were very complete and appropriate for the students to improve
their reading comprehension. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
79 - The materials enabled the students to understand the reading quickly by
making habitual actions such as scanning and skimming. Besides, the respondents gave some comments on the weaknesses of the
materials. According to the respondents, the designed materials had some weaknesses as in the following:
- The reading texts were too long - The level of the vocabulary was too high for the students which might cause
difficulty to the students. - The exercises and activities were not varied enough.
3 Respondents Suggestions on the Designed Materials Suggestions were also valuable to improve the designed materials in order
to make the final version of the designed materials. The respondents suggested to the researcher some points as presented below:
- Related to the limited vocabulary mastered by the students, it was better for a designer teacher to enrich their vocabulary before the reading activities, so
that the students could get the whole idea in the reading and they could also learn the values or message of the reading.
- The designer should be more creative in designing the materials, so that the students would not get bored of it especially in choosing the type of the
exercises. - The designer could add some games to make the activities more interesting.
- It would be better to add the materials with local topics Indonesian topics. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
80 - The designer should simplify the reading texts so that the students could
understand easily. - The designer should create more complete WH questions.
- If the designer could add an assignment which allowed the students to choose the texts they would like to read, the English learning process would hopefully
be enhanced.