2. Planning
The information collected from the first stage was used to plan the materials. This activity included defining the targeted skills, starting objectives
and determining course sequence. The topics and objectives of the materials were selected based on a subject that was relevant with and interesting to the learners.
The researcher used the needs analysis and the curriculum as the basis for choosing the topic. She also had interviews with the teachers to help her choose
appropriate topics for kindergarten learners. The activities involved the learners in investigating the topic. In this
research, the researcher only took four units as the examples of the materials, which were suitable for the students’ needs.
C. The Product of the Try-Out Design
1. Writing the Course Grid
After selecting the topics of material contents, the researcher wrote the course grid based on the children’s needs and referred to some ideas shared by
underlying theories in creating the course grid, the theories were combined from Hutchinson and Waters 1987 and Cameron 2001.
2. Developing the Materials
Developing the materials was an important step in instruction planning, looking for the facts that successful instruction dependent much on how well
instructional materials were developed and presented. This stage included writing and developing the first draft of the materials.
3. Evaluation of the First Draft
The first evaluation was done before the try out. In this stage, the materials were evaluated based on the judgment of the experts. The judgments were
obtained from questionnaire given to the experts. 4.
Trying Out the Materials After the process of evaluating the first draft of the materials, they were
implemented to the respondents. It was aimed at getting feedbacks which were used to revise the materials. Furthermore, the implementations were held in class
B to obtain many feedbacks to use in the next stage. The result of the first implementation was then used to re-modify the materials.
5. Evaluation of the Second Draft
In the second evaluation, the researcher evaluated the materials based on the researcher’s reflection on the try-out and the result of the in-depth interview with
the children and the teachers. 6.
Revising and Writing the Final Draft of the Materials Based on the analysis of the opinions and suggestions, the researcher finally
could produce the final draft of the material for English Day program appropriate for children in TKIT Salsabila 2 Banguntapan.
D. The Subject of the Data
The study was conducted at TKIT Salsabila 2 Banguntapan Bantul. The school was located in Jl. Gatotkaca Jurugentong RT 10 RW 34 Banguntapan
Bantul Yogyakarta. This kindergarten had English as an extracurricular subject. It was held every Wednesday for about thirty minutes for each class. There are two
classes, A and B. The school personnel comprised a headmaster, an administrator,
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