Designing the Message Preliminary Form of Product
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The second unit of the designed materials deals with wedding structure. Here, as the limitation of the designed materials, the wedding structure that was
provided was about Javanese wedding structure. Inability to provide both wedding concepts international and Javanese was aimed at avoiding the students learn
much input and vocabulary items in only one unit. Therefore, choosing one kind of wedding structure was done. Another reason of choosing Javanese wedding
structure was because the wedding events done in Yogyakarta which deal with foreign clients were mostly dealing with Javanese wedding. Furthermore, to
introduce cultural value of Javanese wedding, the wedding structure in this unit was explained in such a way. As wedding structure deals with a chronological
order, therefore, as the language focus, the unit contains the use of linking words. The third unit of the designed materials deals with wedding vendors. In
this unit, introducing wedding vendors was packaged in both general and international theme. Generally, the name of the wedding vendors can be used both
in international and Javanese wedding concept. Meanwhile, by looking at the pictures of the wedding vendors, the pictures represent the international wedding
concept. Furthermore, the input was about expressions of asking and giving opinions. This was based on the interview results which said that when the team
members talk about wedding vendors with clients, the clients would mostly ask about the team members about particular wedding vendors. As language focus, the
team members, as the ones who were mostly asked opinion, were introduced about how to give opinions formally.
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In the designed materials, the forth unit deals with wedding brochure. The making of wedding brochure was aimed to be used generally. The wedding
brochure was handmade which was adapted from and based on the observation results. In this unit, the students were expected to explain the wedding brochure to
the clients. As the price of the wedding package was mostly in a large amount of money, therefore, the students were taught to learn how to read aloud large
number in English correctly. The fifth unit of the designed materials deal with wedding menu. Here, the
menu used was Indonesian traditional food. Therefore, it means that the wedding menu in this unit support Javanese wedding concept. Choosing Indonesian
traditional food was also based on the interview results. Some stakeholder of the wedding organizers claimed that they found difficulty in explaining Indonesian
traditional food in English, as they have unique local names. To help the team members explain the food, some simple explanation of the ingredients used to
make the food were provided, as well as the picture of the food. As the language focus, this unit provided simple future tense on the use of
will
. It was because when dealing with wedding menu, the clients and team members discuss
something that will happen in the future. In the designed materials, the sixth unit is about wedding contract. The
wedding contract that was provided dealth with the general one. It means that the unit contains the usual and formal wedding contract. As wedding contract is
considered as a part of business letter, therefore, this unit provided the students with more strained teaching and learning activities and contents. The students