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which are appropriate to be implemented in that school. The steps that the researcher use are described as follow:
1. Research and Information Collecting
The researcher decided to do this step in two ways. First, the researcher obtained some references like a handbook and information about the school
background as the basis of the research. Second, the researcher did the needs analysis, which is students’ need. The researcher distributed a questionnaire to the
twelfth grade students of SMK N 2 Depok, Sleman, Yogyakarta in the academic year 20132014. The questionnaires were distributed in the second week of
February 2014, because the researcher could not distributed the questionnaire in December or January because the researcher needed to finish Kuliah Kerja Nyata
KKN first. From the questionnaires, the researcher gathered the data about students’ difficulties, students’ opinion about speaking class activity, students’
opinion about speaking materials given in school and students’ opinion about the
materials and topic s that they needed or liked. In order to know the teachers’
needs, the researcher did an interview with one of the teachers of SMK N 2 Depok, Sleman,
Yogyakarta who was teaching the twelfth grades. From the interview, the researcher gathered the data about
teachers’ opinions and views about students’ characteristics
, students’ problem in English learning, English speaking materials used in school, and the teachers’ expectation related to the design of speaking
materials.
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2. Planning
In this step, the researcher planned the aim and the goal of the research. The researcher designed the materials related to the needs analysis. Thus, the
designed material would be useful for the vocational school students and having correlation between the students major and the materials given.
3. Developing Preliminary Form of Product
The researcher designed the speaking materials and learning activities based on the data gathered in the research and information collecting. The
researcher gathered the speaking materials from many sources.
4. Preliminary Field Testing
