Curriculum of FEC Theoretical Review

21 teachers to handle the participants especially for the very young learners as the participants of EFH. In the last findings, he found that in order to help the teachers’ preparation, to support the good outcome, and to maintain the parents’ satisfaction for the next program, one of the suggestions is the developer intended to develop theme-based materials as the resources especially for L1 level.

C. Conceptual Framework

In Indonesia, English is a foreign language. In some primary schools, English is an elective subject. In other words, the parents consider that English for children is important. Therefore, the parents decide to join English language school for their children. There are many English language schools for children, but based on the observation done in some language school in Yogyakarta, the management and the academic activities were still not appropriate. The school was not managed well, there was no clear structure of the school management, the teaching and learning process also conducted only in the classroom, and the activities were monotonous. FEC 2015 is an English language school for children that is conducted in FBS UNY and managed by the EFC students. Developing the SOP of FEC 2015 is necessary as what is explained in the background of the study and identification of the problem. There are some criteria of a good English language school and it is categorized by the Education Ministry of Indonesia. A language school should be managed with the appropriate management, started from giving 22 the name of the program, length of the time of the program, school fee, teacher s’ recruitment, arranging the schedule, designing the syllabus, designing the activities, and others. In developing a program, it needed a SOP Standard Operating Procedures as the guideline. Therefore, the developer did a development to write the SOP of FEC 2015. The developer developed the SOP of FEC 2015 to be a guideline for the EFC lecturers and EFC students so that FEC 2015 became a better English language school for children with the appropriate management and academic activities. 23

CHAPTER III DEVELOPMENT METHOD

A. Model Development

This development is classified as Educational Research and Development RD since this is a process used to develop and validate educational product Borg and Gall, 1983:772. The findings of this development were used to develop an English language school for children. The product in this development is the SOP Standard Operating Procedure of FEC 2015 as an English language school for children. This development figures out the