Planning. It includes Kemp’s steps of considering goals, listing topics, stating the
3. Developing Preliminary Form of Product. It consists of Kemp’s step of selecting teachinglearning activities and instructional resources.
4. Preliminary Field Testing. It adapts the Kemp’s step of evaluation. 5. Main Product Revision. It adapts Kemp’s step of revision.
To answer the second research question, the researcher conducted expert validation and user validation step by distributing evaluative questionnaire to two
lecturers of the English Language Education Study Program and also to two English instructors of Global Lingua Yogyakarta. The outcome implied that the materials
were ready to be implemented for the staff of Bank Mandiri, indicated by the range of mean of 3.25 up to 4.00. Despite obtaining positive comments such as the materials
were seriously developed, attractive, applicable, well-arranged, motivating, the various and interesting learning activities, and also that the materials were really
suitable for adult learners, the materials had been improved by adding instructions in every section of the unit, changing the phrase “Don’t Stop Now” into “Prepare
Yourself”, numbering each activity contained in each section, adding the teaching and learning media, evaluation and references, and stating explicitly the aim of “It’s
Time to Write” in the overview of the materials. The final version of the designed materials produced as the result of this study
is presented in the appendices. The arrangement of the materials is displayed in Table 5.1.
Table 5.1: The Arrangement of the Materials Meeting
Unit Learning Topic
1 Meeting New People
Greetings and Introduction 2
Dealing with Numbers Numbers
3 How to Survive on the Phone
Telephoning Conversation 4
Perfect Time to Meet Making Appointments
5 Where Are They?
Giving Directions 6
Have You Known This? Introducing New Services
7 How Do They Work?
Explaining Bank Facilities 8
Good Complaints Handler Handling Complaints
Adapting Willis’ framework of task-based learning, the materials of each
meeting was divided into five sections. The first section, Do You Remember?, was
designed to introduce the learners with the context and to relate learners’ personal
experience to the topic. The second section, Prepare Yourself, provided useful
expressions, vocabulary and exercises to prepare learners for key language items to
do the main tasks. Can You Do These?, the third section, gave learners
opportunities to produce and learn the language while accomplishing the tasks. The
fourth, Let’s Learn, provided the recommended grammatical aspects related to the topic that would be necessary for the learners to understand. Finally, It’s Time to
Write encouraged learners to reflect their learning experience in a journal.