Designing the Message Designing and Conducting Evaluation of Instruction
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Table 4.9. The Result of the Materials Evaluation
No.
The Lecturers’teacher’s opinion on …
N Degree of agreements
1 2
3 4
1 The major objectives of the
designed materials are well formulated.
3 -
- 1
33 2
67 2
The designed materials are able to meet the objectives of English
for KYM Junior Sisters. 3
- -
- 3
100 3
The content of the designed materials is well-elaborated.
3 -
- 3
100 4
The activities in each material are well-arranged.
3 -
- 1
33 2
67 5
Generally, the activities in each unit can motivate learners to
develop their speaking skill personally.
3 -
- 1
33 2
67 6
The instructions of the design materials are clear enough.
3 -
- -
3 100
7 The designed materials are
relevant to the learners’ skill level.
3 -
- 2
67 1
33 8
The designed materials are suitable to
learners’ needs. 3
- 1
33 1
34 1
33 9
The content of the designed materials is related to the
learners’ life. 3
- -
1 33
2 67
10 Generally,
the designed
materials are interesting and varied.
3 -
- 2
67 1
33 11
The use of pictures is effective to help the learners to stimulate
their thought. 3
- -
2 67
1 33
12 Overall, the materials are well-
designed. 3
- -
2 67
1 33
Based on the result of questionnaire distributed to the evaluators, almost all the evaluators devoted their choices on agree and strongly agree. The
evaluators agreed that the major objectives and the content of the designed materials were well formulated. The evaluators also agreed that the activities on
the designed materials were well-arranged. Generally, the activities could
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instructions in the designed materials were clear enough to be understood. Afterward, it was about relevancy of the designed materials to the
learners’ skill level. The evaluators stated that designed materials were suitable for the learners’ skill level, learners’ needs, and also related to the learners’ life. It
can be seen from the evaluators’ answer in which the designed materials had been evaluated on the degree of agreement 3 and 4 which means agree and strongly
agree . However, there was a statement in which the degree of agreement was still
low. Statement number 8, it was found that one of the evaluators was unsure whether
the designed materials are suitable with learners’ needs or not. It might happen because the writer did not state clearly in the background that the designed
materials based on the learners needs. Therefore, the evaluator misunderstood the background of the study.
Generally, the evaluators agreed that the designed materials were interesting and varied. The used of the pictures in the designed materials were
effective to help the learners stimulate their thought. It could help the learners enjoy the designed materials and the learning process. Hence, this set of
instructional English speaking materials had been acceptable for the Junior KYM Sisters. The next was about
the evaluators’ comments and recommendations in the designed materials. Generally, the evaluators stated that the designed materials
were good. The evaluators’ comments and recommendations in the designed
materials are listed as follows:
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The evaluators’ opinion on the strengths of the designed materials: a.
The design is engaging and the materials are well-planned. b.
The design can enrich learners understanding to make an organized talk about congregation.
c. It is easy to be understood and the materials are well-formulated.
d. The writer has specific aim.
e. Interesting because it contains cultural context.
f. It has good combination of text and work book to use in class or
individually. 2.
The evaluators’ recommendations on things should be improved in the designed materials are:
a. Some grammatical mistakes are found.
b. It would be better if there’s a storyline that connects one topic to another.
c. Cultural context only exists in one unit. Why not in all units?
d. Need to be more varied in vocabulary section.
e. To improve learners’ vocabularies you should include the real meaning or
definition of each word. E.g. parish = paroki. It’s not meaning but
Indonesian translation. f.
You should prepare materials of four components in English: reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
g. Students’ levels in English are not mentioned in the book.
h. It will be better if in the objective the time allocation is mentioned.
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useful for the writer to revise and to improve the designed materials to be better. In this step, the writer revised the designed ma
terials based on the evaluators’ feedback, evaluations and recommendations. The revision of the designed
materials is presented as follows: a.
The writer corrected the grammatical mistakes in the designed materials. The writer also changed some diction to make the sentences sound English.
b. The writer faced difficulty in making the storyline of the topic because each
unit of the designed materials had different theme and context. However, the writer made a storyline in a simple way on the warming-up activity in which
the learners doing the task and it is still connected to the next phases. c.
The cultural context appears in two units; unit 1 and unit 2. The writer tried to make the cultural context for all units but it did not work well.
d. The writer modified the vocabulary section more varied. The writer let the
learners to find out themselves the English translation of the words. e.
The writer changed the instruction in the vocabulary section. At first, the writer stated find the meaning of the words and it changed to find the English
translation of the words .
f. The writer merely focuses in speaking skill in order to enhance learners’
speaking ability. g.
The writer mentioned the learners’ level and the time allocation for each unit in the beginning of the
learners’ book. The detail of the designed materials can be found in Appendix 6.
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