pronunciation transcription. Most the activities are set up in pairs and small group because the students prefer to have learning activities in those kinds of setting.
In carrying out the activities the students want to have two roles. First, they want to listen to the tutor
’s explanations and do hisher instructions. Second, they want to participate actively in discussion activity, share their ideas and opinions
with their classmates and tutor about particular topic. On the other hands, the students prefer that the teacher or tutor acts as recourse, assessor, and prompter in
the process of learning.
3. The Characteristics of Appropriate English Speaking Learning
Materials for English Tutorial Program for the Students of International Mathematics Education Study Program
Appropriate speaking learning materials have the following components: a.
Introduction. Introduction consists of two elements: unit title and learning objectives.
1 Unit title
Unit title is written based on the topic and language functions that are going to learn in the unit.
2 Learning objectives
The learning objectives can be written explicitly or implicitly. The learning objectives are written based on the learning goals that are wanted
to achieve in the unit. b.
Main Lesson
Main lesson consists of three elements: let’s get ready, let’s take action, and let’s do more.
1 Let’s Get Ready
Let’s Get Ready contains warm-up tasks which are used to introduce topic and language function that are going to learn in the unit and to
brainstormed the students previous knowledge about the topic and the language functions.
2 Let’s Take Action
Let’s Take Action contains practice tasks which are divided into guide- task and semi guided task. Those task covers listening task, speaking task
and language functions tasks. 3
Let’s Do More Let’s Do More contains production task. The task has less scaffolding in
which the students are provide with some topics only. c.
Reinforcement Reinforcement consists of five elements: evaluation, homework, let’s make
reflections, summary and vocabulary list. 1
Evaluation. Evaluation task is free-guided task which aims to measure the students’ ability after learning the unit.
2 Homework. It contains a real-world task which requires students to use
language functions they have learned in the class outside the class. 3
Let’s Make Reflections. This aims to provide reflection space for the students about themselves by doing self-reflection and peer-assessment.
4 Summary. It aims to provide summary about language functions and
grammar that the students have learned in the unit. 5
Vocabulary list. It is provided in order to give the students review of the vocabulary that they meet in the unit. The vocabulary list covers the
English words, parts of speech, pronunciation transcription, and Indonesian equivalent.
B. Suggestions
