listening materials using CLT for the tenth first grade students of SMA BOPKRI 2 Yogyakarta. The writer intends to help the English teachers of this school by
providing applicable listening materials. Moreover, the first grade students of this school will study listening more effectively using Communicative Language
Approach designed in this study.
B. Problem Formulation
The problems in this study are stated as follows. 1. How is a set of English instructional listening materials using communicative
language teaching for tenth grade students of SMA BOPKRI 2 Yogyakarta developed?
2. What does a set of English instructional listening materials using Communicative Language Teaching for tenth grade students of SMA BOPKRI
2 Yogyakarta look like?
C. Problem Limitation
This study is limited to designing a set of English instructional listening materials using communicative language teaching for the tenth grade students of
SMA BOPKRI 2 Yogyakarta. In addition, it is limited to only the first semester of the tenth grade, in order to specify the research. The writer chooses the topic and
makes the set of instructional listening materials using materials which are provided in some sources, like educational books and internet. The media used in
designing this set of listening materials is compact disc CD.
D. Research Objectives
This research is intended to answer the questions stated in the problem formulation. The research objectives are to know how a set of instructional
listening materials for the tenth grade students of SMA BOPKRI 2 Yogyakarta using Communicative Language Teaching is developed and to find out what does
it look like.
E. Research Benefits
The writer hopes that this study will give a lot of benefits for the English teachers, tenth grade students of SMA BOPKRI 2 Yogyakarta, and for the future
researchers. First, the benefit for the English teacher is to provide them with a set of listening materials using communicative approach so they can improve
themselves to encourage students’ listening ability related to the real communication. This study will become a model for the teachers to produce
listening materials more, which are appropriate to the needs of the curriculum and the students. Second, the benefit for the students is that it will be easier to improve
their listening skill using the appropriate materials provided. They will be richer, especially in the listening comprehension and communication ability. Third, the
benefit for the future researches of English Education Study Program is that they can do a research to analyze whether this instructional listening materials design
will be effective to be implemented in the English teaching and learning activities in SMA BOPKRI 2 Yogyakarta or not.
F. Definition of Terms
