Research Constraint RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
2. The Learning Needs The learning needs were about the students’ opinion about what they
should do to attain the target situation. For the input, the students wanted in learning short texts and the texts were taken from their daily life, so they can
easily comprehend the text. Furthermore, they wanted the use of pictures in the learning materials to motive in learning writing.
In learning activities, the students preferred to answer the questions based on the text and do the learning writing games such as wordsearch puzzle. In this
modern era, the students were familiar in using the technology and the social media, so the students also wanted the involvement of the technology in the
teaching and learning process. In doing the activities, the students liked to do the tasks individually and in a group work. Therefore, some of the materials could be
done individually and in group works. In the student s’ role, most of the students
liked to solve their problem by asking their friends rather than the teacher.
3. The Characteristics of the Appropriate Task Based Supplementary Writing Book
There were three units of the supplementary writing materials using task based language teaching. The unit was divided into three which contained of
descriptives text and announcement which were unit 1 and unit 2 explained about describing people and place. Then, In the unit three, it was explained about
announcement. Each unit consisted of 15 tasks which were divided into pre task,
task, planning and report activity. The topic of the book was related to the students’ daily life.
The supplementary writing materials using task based language teaching was completed with the study guide. The study guide consisted of the explanation
of each task instruction, answer key and self assessment. Therefore, the study guide could help the students to learn writing materials individually. The
supplementary writing materials stud ent’s book and the study guide had a good
quality of pictures and fonts. The book was also colourful so that the book gained the students’ motivation in learning writing.
Based on the result of the expert judgement, the range of the score were 2.67 ≤ x ≤ 3. It was categorized as a good supplementary writing materials book.
The results were based on the expert evaluation for the first draft of the supplementary writing materials book. In line, the result of the book testing were
2.34 which means that the supplementary writing materials book is good. The result of the book testing was taken from the field implementation for the tenth
grade senior high school students. As a result, the supplementary writing materials using task based language teaching was appropriate for the tenth grade
students of the senior high school. The book can be applied as an additional materials to help the students to comprehend the writing materials.