The Description of the Designed Materials
74 ation of the speaking instructional materials using games for fourth graders of SD
Negeri Turi 1 Sleman would be briefly described below. Moreover, the final version of the designed materials could be seen in Appendix J.
The designed materials were organized based on the even semester materials for the fourth graders of elementary school. There were four topics for
four meetings; seventy minutes per meeting. The topics were listed on the next page.
1. I Like Hiking 2. Hold My Hands, Please
3. May I Have a Candy? 4. May I Go to the Library?
Each topic consisted of five sections namely Build It Up, Say It Right, Language Focus, Do It Well, and Let’s Summarize. Those five sections
represented the cycle of teaching speaking: Input, Practice, and Follow Up. The elaboration of each part was presented below.
a. Build it Up This section aimed to introduce the topic of the lesson toward the students
and direct students’ attention to the topic. Moreover, the students were focused on certain topic, words, and sentences they would use during the lesson. Simple
activities were provided such as matching pictures, finding a right way, sticking the pictures, analyzing pictures and discussing with the whole class. Finishing
those activities, students were assumed be ready to follow the learning activity. This section depicted the input phase of teaching speaking.
75 b. Say It Right
There were two aims of this part. They were introducing the language focus and training how to correctly pronounce the language focus related to the
topic. The activities such as repeating what the teacher said and practicing dialogues with friends were given to the students. The input and practice phases of
teaching speaking were depicted in this section. c. Language Focus
This part depicted the input and practice phases of teaching speaking. Listening to the teacher’s explanation, analyzing the language focus, and
completing short unfinished dialogues were activities provided in this part. Those activities aimed to explain the rules of the item of language and train the students
how to apply the item of language correctly. d. Do it Well
This section depicted the practice phase of teaching speaking. It was set to provide opportunity for students to practice and use the language by using games.
The activities such as observing the teacher in modeling the games and playing the games with friends were provided in this part.
e. Let’s Summarize This section aimed to review the input and practice section of the learning
activity. Some activities such as examining the students’ understanding of the presented materials, listening to the teacher’s summary, discussing the previous
materials, and doing question-and-answer activity in class were provided in this section. This last section depicted the follow-up phase of teaching speaking and
76 was used to check students’ understanding about the previous materials.
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