1. What are the reading target needs of Grade VII students of Junior High
School focusing on descriptive text materials? 2.
What are the learning needs of Grade VII students of Junior High School focusing on descriptive text materials?
3. What do the appropriate task-based supplementary English reading
materials focusing on descriptive texts for Grade VII students of Junior High School look like?
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
A. Model of the Development
To answer the questions stated in the problem formulation, a research namely Research and Development R D was conducted. Gall, Gall and Borg 2003
define Research and Development R D as a development model in which the findings of the research are used to develop new products and procedures that
meet specified criteria of effectiveness, quality, or similar standards through systematic field-tests, evaluations, and revisions. Here, the writer should consider
teaching learning procedures and processes as well as the products. Moreover, Borg and Gall 1983 state that R D is a process that is used to develop and
validate educational products. To reach the goal in developing supplementary English reading materials for
Grade VII students of Junior High School, some steps in R D were used. Borg and Gall 1983 propose systematic stages namely R D cycle. The steps are
research and information collecting, planning, developing preliminary form of product, preliminary field testing, main product revision, main field testing,
operational product revision, operational field testing, final product revision, and dissemination and implementation. Masuhara, in Tomlinson 1998, also offers
some steps in conducting this kind of research. They are need analysis, goals and objectives, syllabus design, methodology or materials, and testing and evaluation.
B. Procedure of the Development
The research procedure used in this study modified the steps of R D cycle proposed by Masuhara in Tomlinson 1998 as follows:
Figure 3.1. The Model of Materials Development of This Study
1. Conducting Needs Analysis
Needs analysis was conducted in this step in order to gain the students‟
target and learning needs. 2.
Writing a Course Grid After knowing the students‟ needs related to the designed supplementary
reading materials, the next step was writing a course grid as a guideline to design the units of the materials. It was written based on the results of the
needs analysis. Conducting
Needs Analysis
Writing a Course Grid
Designing the First Draft of the
Product Getting Expert
Judgment Revisions
