The Description of Unit 3

punctuation and capitalization. By doing this task, the students are expected to be better in understanding and writing a news item text. After the Information Centre, there will be Exercises 1. There are three tasks here. The first task is to arrange jumbled paragraphs into two appropriate texts. The next exercise in this section is to complete several sentences with appropriate terms. The last one is giving proper punctuation and capitalization in an article. The goal of the exercises in this section is to assess what they have learnt in Information Centre. The last section in this stage is Grammar Centre. In this section, the students will be provided with an explanation about direct and indirect speech followed by a task to apply their understanding after the explanation. These two tasks are important for the students to gain the goal of this unit i.e. to be able to write news item. After clearing the Stage 1, there is Stage 2 which consists of Exercises 2. There are two tasks in this section. The first task is rewriting a news item. Students’ knowledge about news item like generic structures and elements of news items are needed to complete this task. The next task is choosing a picture and then finding related news in a printed or online newspaper or magazine, rewrite and email it to the teacher, and finally posting it on the online class forum. It is important for the students as a preparation before they write. After gaining information in Stage 1 and preparing for writing in Stage 2, the students will enter Stage 3 i.e. to write a complete news item. The students will write a news item from step by step. Firstly, they need to write an outline. After outlining, they will develop a complete text, and then finally evaluating, having feedback, and revising. The next part is Summary. The purpose of this section is to provide the summary of language items which are taught in Unit 3. By this section, the students will know the focus of Unit 3 and can redo the activities if they were not sure about their achievement of the objectives. The final part is Reflection. The Reflection provides some statements about the objectives of Unit 3. The students are to fill the given spaces about how much they learn from this unit, i.e. very much, much, and little. From this activity, both the learner and teacher will know their improvement from learning this unit.

5. The Expert Judgment

The expert judgment was the next stage of this study after all units of the materials were developed. The purpose of the expert judgment was to get the expert s’ opinion about the product. There are two kinds of expert judgments; the expert judgment of materials and the expert judgment of the website.

a. Web Based Writing Learning Materials

The instrument for the expert judgment of materials was a questionnaire. The items of the questionnaire were adapted from the standards of materials proposed by BNSP. According to the BNSP, the materials should be appropriate in some aspects, i.e.: content, language, and presentation. Therefore, the purpose of the questionnaire was to know how far the materials have accomplished those standards. The questionnaire can be seen in Appendix. The results of the expert judgment questionnaire were analyzed using descriptive statistic. The central tendency which was applied in this study is the mean. In classifying the category, the mean was converted into frequencies of agreement. The results of the questionnaire are provided in Appendix. The summary of the results are presented as follows. 1 The result of the expert judgment of web based materials of Unit 1. The tables below present the descriptive statistic of the materials experts’ opinion related to the appropriateness of content of Unit 1 according to the standards of BNSP about learning materials for high school. a The appropriateness of content. Table 4.22: The expert judgment of unit 1: the appropriateness of content No. Items Means Description of Agreement 1 The suitability with Standard of Competence and Basics Competence. 4.0 Agree 2 The accuracy of the contents. 4.0 Agree 3 The appropriateness of supportive materials. 4.0 Agree The appropriateness of the contents of the materials can be achieved if it shows the mean value of 4.0. Table 4.22 above is the summary from the