Selecting Subject Content Selecting TeachingLearning Activities and Resources
survey results. Those teachinglearning activities were chosen based on the goals that were expected to gain, and also on the learners’ needs and wants. Therefore, it was
expected that the learners could truly enjoy the lessons and gain the objectives of the course.
The teachinglearning activities chosen in the designed materials mainly included reading, listening, speaking, and grammar and vocabulary discussions. The
first main activity, reading, was designed as home task the one in the first meeting was exceptional. After reading the reading passages at home, the learners were
intended to have a discussion, that was based on the provided questions, in class to comprehend the topics deeper. The resources of this activity were from the writer’s
ideas, magazines, text books, and also websites. The second main activity, listening, was intended to be conducted after the
reading discussion. The learners were expected to listen to certain conversations in cassettes and discuss the provided questions together. All conversations in listening
parts were from cassettes, and the listening questions were taken from text books or provided by the writer.
The third main activity, speaking, consisted of one or more kinds of activities that were intended to make the learners really practice speaking. There were games,
role-plays, discussions, debates, interviews, and presentations. The learners were intended to do those kinds of speaking activities by following the provided
instructions. In this part, the writer used her experiences, course programs, text books, and websites as the resources.
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The fourth main activities were grammar and vocabulary discussions. The learners were expected to gain feedback of their speaking activities by consulting
with the correct grammar patterns that were provided. They were also expected to enrich their vocabulary by completing the tasks in “Words Bank”. The resources for
this part were text books and dictionaries. The list of the subject contents, teachinglearning activities, and resources can
be seen in the syllabus. The syllabus used in this study was topic syllabus because units in these designed materials were differentiated by their topics.