First, the evaluator suggests that the researcher needs to pay her attention on the grammatical mistakes because there are still some grammatical mistakes
found in the developed materials. Second, the evaluator also suggests that the researcher needs to pay her attention on the varieties of the listening activities.
Third, some of the pictures or illustrations do not facilitate students to do the learning process.
c. The Revisions of Unit 1
Table 4.20. The Revisions of Unit 1 Part of the
Unit Points to Revise
Revision
Task 1 Pay attention to the variety of the
activities. Some pictures can be used to help the learning process.
There was a change of the activity from “Listen
to the dialogue carefully and circle the correct
description about Mrs. Davis
in the
box provided
” into “Listen to the dialogue carefully
and tick the picture which describes about
Mrs.
Davis’s characteristics.
” Some pictures were used to
facilitate students in the learning process.
Task 2 Correct the words
“somethig” and “the example”.
There was a change of the word “somethig”
into “something” and the letter “s” was added
in the word “the example” since it is
plural.
Task 3 The activity of finding the meaning
in Bahasa Indonesia is done by opening the dictionary. It has to be
changed because the activity does not represent listening activity.
There was a change of the activity from finding
the meaning in Bahasa Indonesia
by opening a dictionary
into “while listening”,
where students are asked to
listen to the sentences taken from the stories
one by one and choose the closest meaning of
the
vocabularies in
Bahasa Indonesia from
multiple choices. Task 4
Correct t he word “someone” in the
instruction and the word “decribe”. There was a correction
from the
word “someone”
into “someone’s.” Then, a
typo in
the word
“decribe” was changed into “describe.”
Task 5 No revision
No revision Task 6
No revision No revision
Task 7 Change the activity of finding the
meaning in Bahasa Indonesia after the students listen to the whole
descriptive
text because
the listening moment has already
passed. Students might find some difficulties in guessing the meaning
of the vocabularies. There was a change of
the activity into “while
listening”, where
students are asked to listen to the sentences
taken from the story one by one and choose the
closest meaning of the vocabularies in Bahasa
Indonesia
from multiple choices.
Task 8 The vocabularies selected for the
“fill in the blank” activity are randomly choosen.
There was a change of the selection of the
vocabularies in the “fill
in the blank” activity. The vocabularies were
changed into
those which are categorized as
adjectives and nouns because it is related to
descriptive texts.
A new task was inserted. A new task was inserted
to make the materials more varied. The title of
the task become “Task
9”. The instruction used is
“The dialogue that you will hear and the
dialogue written below is
slightly different.
After you heard the whole dialogue, mark
the difference found in the
written text
provided.” The
comparation activity is done after the students
listen to the whole dialogue
because it
becomes more
challenging. It
can sharpen
students’ understanding
and sharpen their memory.
Task 9 Correct
the words
“hear”, “adjective”, and the title of the task.
There was a change of the title from “Task 9”
into “Task 10”. There were
also some
replacements made from the
word “hear” into “listen to” and the word
“adjective” into “an adjective.”
Then,
