grammatical mistakes. Then, the researcher also needs to add some illustrations which facilitate
the students’ learning process.
l. The Revision of Unit 4
Table 4.23. The Revision of Unit 4 Part of the
Unit Points to Revise
Revision
Task 1 No revision
No revision Task 2
No revision No revision
Task 3 The activity of finding the meaning
in Bahasa Indonesia need to be changed because the activity does
not involve listening activity since it is done by opening the dictionary.
The activity
was changed from finding the
meaning in
Bahasa Indonesia
by opening a dictionary
into “while listening”,
where students are asked to
listen to the sentences taken from the stories
one by one and choose the closest meaning of
the
vocabularies in
Bahasa Indonesia from
multiple choices. Task 4
No revision No revision
Task 5 No revision
No revision Task 6
A variation is needed in the materials which are developed.
There was a change of the instruction from
“Listen to a song
entitled “Breakaway” carefully and fill in the
missing lyric bel
ow”
into “The lyric below is taken from a song
entitled “Smile”. Complete the lyrics by
choosing the right pictures
.” The song was changed from
“Breakaway” into “Smile” because
“Breakaway” consists of words which are
difficult to be expressed in the picture such as
“chance, easy, and
darkness.”
Task 7 Change the word “Breakaway”
There was a change of the word “Breakaway”
into “Smile” since the song choosen in Task 6
was also changed.
Task 8 No revision
No revision Task 9
Delete the picture used in the explanation.
There was a picture ommitted in Task 9
because it does not facilitate the students
learning process. There were
also some
examples of metaphor added
as additional
information. Task 10
No revision. No revision
Task 11 Delete the picture used in task 11.
There was one picture ommitted because it does
not facilitate students in the learning process.
Task 12 Pay attention to the instruction
whether it is clear and detailed enough or not.
There was a change of instruction made from
”Based on the explanation in Task 11,
find the similar words in
a song called “Firework” into “Based
on the explanation in Task 11, listen to the
song entitled Firework once again and find the
reduced form of words.”
Task 13 No revision
No revision Homework
No revision No revision
Reflection No revision
No revision Summary
Delete the picture used in the summary
There was one picture ommitted
in the
summary because it does not facilitate students in
the learning process.
Intermezzo Change the written input.
There was a change in the input from written
input into spoken input because it does not
facilitate
students to
have listening activity.
B. Discussion
As product based research, it aims to develop listening materials for the eighth-grade students of SMPN 14 Yogyakarta. The results of this research are
appropriate listening materials for the eighth-grade students of Junior High School. There are several steps used to develop the materials. It is described in the following
explanation. The first step done by the researcher was conducting needs analysis. The
needs analysis is presented in the form of questionnaire. It is divided into two main
parts, those are the target needs and the learning needs. The first one consists of the learning goal, necessities the things that the students should know, lacks the
things that the students know and does not know already, and wants what the students think they need. Then, the second part consists of input of the materials,
the procedures, setting, teacher’s role, and students’ role. From the result of the needs analysis, the researcher found out that most of
students’ goal is to able to communicate using English language. They also considered that listening activity is very important skill because it enables them to
sharpen their ability to understand what the speaker says in a conversation. According to the students, the language activity that they occasionally use is
describing something person, thing, or place. For students’ lacks, their English
proficiency level is at the level of intermediate where they are able to communicate in any kind of discourse. The result of their listening ability is also at the
intermediate level. However, based on the observation done by the researcher, both of the students proficiency level and listening ability is not in the intermediate level
since there are some problems related to the students’ pronunciation, familiarity with English language, and so on found. Then, most of the students said that they
are able to understand the main points of texts which are close to the daily life if the provided texts are clearly spoken. The thing that they consider difficult the most in
the listening activity is comprehending the content of the listening material. The last thing about the target needs
is what the students’ expect after finishing their study. The result tells that generally they want to learn English so that they are able
to understand what the other speaker is saying.
