3 createdesign material structures,4 develop the material, 5 material implementation, and 6 evaluate the developed materials after implementation.
Based on the definition above, writer can make an interpretation that RD in this study means the process or developing a totally new material or
improving existing ones to encourage the students in learning English.
3.2 Object of the Study
The object of the study is the English teaching-learning materials of SLB YPAC Semarang. The writer chooses this school as an object of the study because based
on writer’s informal interview with vice-headmaster and teacher of SLB YPAC, she gets some information that in the teaching-learning process of English
language; teacher does n’t have a module or textbook for teaching. In this
situation, teacher uses book that commonly used to teach students of primary school. An appropriate set of materials is very crucial; the materials must be
designed based on the needs analysis. Author thinks that she has found the target which is to develop materials for the autistic students; she finds that the textbook
which teacher has been using is inappropriate, because the book is targeted for elementary students with normal mental condition. From this inappropriateness,
author finds a spot to help the teacher to develop a set of materials through this research.
This SLB holds learning for autistic children, eventhough there is no special class for them. In this school, they are placed in the same class with the
children with down-syndrome. Usually, a class consists of five to seven students with one of them is autistic student which is handled only by one teacher. It has
purpose to help the autistic children to learn to communicate with others and lessen their self-dependent in other word to grow their independence since one of
the characteristics of autism is that they are lack of communication. They are self- centered and unaware with everything that happens in the environment around
them. Therefore, if they are placed in one class, there will be no communication among students. Moreover, the reason the researcher chooses this school is
because this school conducts some education levels for autistic students-- Playgroup, Kindergarten, Elementary School, Junior High School, and Senior
High School--that makesthe author easier to find which classes have got English lesson. One room contains several students from different levels, this group is
basically consists of five to seven students who have the same problems and needs, one teacher handles one group with the same needs, from this, author
decides to develop the materials in the form of a supplementary book because if she has to make it as a textbook to replace the existed textbook, she will find a
problem, because she has to structure the materials from different level, and which means one group will need three to six different books which is a lot of
work to do. On the other hand, that does not match the purpose of the research, this research is to improve, encourage students to be more active and involved in
the activity, not to reach better achievement academically. The product is also targeted for parents not only teachers.
The teachers are interviewed by the author in order to get as much as information related to the English language materials they delivered in that SLB
to the autism students.
3.3 Data Source
