8 Moreover, at the end of this research, the materials will be presented without
implementing them at school. The researcher only asks for opinions, criticisms, and suggestions from English teachers of the school and some experts of
designing materials to evaluate the designed materials.
D. Research Objectives
There are two major objectives of this research. They are listed below. 1. To find out how to design speaking instructional materials using games for
fourth graders of SD Negeri Turi 1 Sleman. 2. To present the design of speaking instructional materials using games for
fourth graders of SD Negeri Turi 1 Sleman.
E. Research Benefits
This research is conducted to be beneficial for the English teachers and the fourth graders of elementary school.
1. English Teachers of Elementary School
This research gives a clear picture of the ways to design instructional materials for English teachers of elementary school. The researcher provides
information about the steps a material designer should do to arrange a set of instructional materials. The set of instructional materials consists of not only the
materials followed by exercises but also completed with teacher’s manual book. This research also presents a clear explanation about games and how to implement
them as the teaching learning activity in class. Those games are used to convey
9 the materials toward students. The product of this research provides learning
materials and activities for students to actively participate in the learning process by using the target language itself. In addition, it also gives English teachers of
elementary school a simple example how to use games for teach speaking in class by facilitating students to use English, as the target language, to communicate
with others. They are also given guidelines how to apply the designed materials so that they will find it easy to apply them in class.
2. Fourth Graders of Elementary School
This research proposes the speaking instructional materials using games for fourth graders of SD Negeri Turi 1 Sleman to learn English effectively. The
instructional materials provide series of activities and topics which have been fit with the needs and interest of fourth graders of SD Negeri Turi 1 Sleman.
Students are presented an opportunity to use English, as the target language, to communicate with others. Various kinds of games will help students to create fun
and interesting circumstances in learning English as a foreign language. They can also apply them outside the class to give them more opportunities to use English.
F. Definition of Terms
Here are the definitions of the terms used in this research.
1. Instructional Material
Dick and Reiser 1989 state that instructional materials are the materials designed for teaching instruction p. 3. It this research, the term instructional
materials is defined as a set of units of material including speaking materials and
