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program, and the materials could improve the students’ speaking ability. The materials had been based on the Direct Method because they were arranged from
the easiest one to the difficult one, and there were no translation in the materials. The topics were also appropriate for the students because they were related to the
students’ daily life. Moreover, about 40 of the respondents did not agreed about the
effectiveness of the materials were effective to be learned in an hour and the materials had covered four skills. The teachers said that the materials needed more
exercise or activity in listening skill. The complete result of the post-design questionnaires in a form of table could be seen in Appendix 12 page 112.
7. Final Product Revision
The last step in developing the English learning materials based on Direct Method for the first level of Junior program of PURIKIDS was the final revision
of the materials. The writer conducted the revision of the materials according to the result of the implementation and the result of the questionnaires to the first
level of Junior program students and the English teachers of PURIKIDS. The revisions of the materials in this step were the speaking tasks, the language, and
the layout of the materials. First, the writer revised the tasks of the speaking. The writer revised the
speaking task to be more interested to the students and the tasks could encourage the students to be brave and confident to speak in English. The writer also
simplified the task, which were useless for the students so the tasks would be better to be used. Second, the writer simplified the language, which made the
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students were confused. The writer had to change the words, which were confusing or ambiguous to the students so that it would be more understandable.
Third, the writer revised the layout of the materials in order to make the students had different perception or understanding about the pictures.
A. The Presentation of the Developed Materials
In this section, the writer presented the final version of the developed materials. After conducting the research and revision, the writer planned 8 eight
units. However, the writer only presented 4 units of the learning materials. They were unit 1, unit 2, unit 3, and unit 4.
The topics of the units were Introducing Self “Hello, My Name is Joe”, Introducing
Someone “She is My Friend, Lana”, Nationality “He is Indonesian”,
Occupation “My Father is a Painter”, Family “I Have Two Sisters”,
Music “She Likes Pop Music”, Public Places “Where is the Game Center?”,
and Giving Direction “Turn Left at Jalan Sudirman”. In listing the topics, the writer had done the research by distributing some questionnaires and
interviewed the respondents in order to make the topics would be suitable and interesting for the first level of Junior program students of PURIKIDS. Since, the
topics would be the basic of developing the learning materials for the students. Each unit of the materials in this research covered 7 seven sections. They
were: Let’s Enter, Let’s Get Started, Let’s Try It Out, Let’s Have Fun, Let’s Learn, Speak Up, and Vocabulary Zone.
The discussion of each part in detail was as follows.
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