65 to produce one. Moreover, students are given homework in the homework part
and then asked to reflect their learning through the unit in the reflection part. The homework part is aimed to provide students more practice outside the classroom
on what they have learnt from the unit while in the reflection part, the students are given the chance to reflect how much they have learnt from the unit. In the other
part, there is an intermezzo which is presented in the form of some facts related to hotel management. The last part of the materials is summary. In summary, the
students have a clear picture of text, language features and grammar in the unit.
4. The First Draft of the Materials
The developed materials consist of three units. Below is the description of each of them.
a. Unit 1
Unit 1 is developed based on the syllabus which takes core competences 1, 2, 3, 4, and basic competences 1.1, 2.3, 3.1, 4.1 as the basis of the syllabus design.
The title of the unit is “What Would You Suggest?” and the topic is hotels. The whole unit talks about hotels that will suit the guests best to stay. And a s the title,
the unit focuses on asking for and giving suggestion. The focus of the grammar is the use of modals or auxiliary as it is used to ask and give suggestion.
The core competences and basic competences require the students to be able to analyze the social function, the text structure, and the language features of
the expressions of asking for and giving suggestion, offering, accepting and refusing according to the context, and also to produce the text in both spoken and
66 written form. The unit is divided into two cycles. They are spoken cycle and
written cycle in which each consists of several tasks. In Unit 1, there are 25 tasks: 3 tasks belong to warm-up activities, 11 tasks
belong to reading and writing activities, 10 tasks belong to listening and speaking activities, and 1 task belongs to homework activity. The description of each task is
in Appendix E. b.
Unit 2 Unit 2 is developed based on the syllabus that is derived from core
competences 1, 2, 3, 4, and basic competences 1.1, 2.3, 3.9, 4.13. The title of this unit is “What Is Bellboy?” and the topic is hotel jobs. The whole unit talks about
the jobs existing in a hotel including the job descriptions. The title and the topic represent the text type that will be learnt in the unit: report text. The focus of the
grammar is the use of the simple present tense. The core competences and basic competences require the students to be
able to analyze the social function, the text structure, and the language features of report text and also to produce the text in both spoken and written form. The unit
is divided into two cycles. They are spoken cycle and written cycle in which each consists of several tasks.
In Unit 2, there are 25 tasks: 3 tasks belong to warm-up activities, 12 tasks belong to reading and writing activities, 9 tasks belong to listening and speaking
activities, and 1 task belongs to homework activity. The description of each task is in Appendix E.
67 c.
Unit 3 In Unit 3, the materials are developed based on the syllabus made based
on core competences 1, 2, 3, 4, and basic competences 1.1, 2.3, 3.6, 4.9 and 4.10. The title of this unit is “How to Manage a Hotel” and the topic is hotel
management. As the title, the whole unit will discuss various methods in running a hotel. The unit clearly focuses on procedure texts. The focus of the grammar is
the use of the imperative sentence. The core competences and basic competences require the students to be
able to analyze the social function, the text structure, and the language features of procedure text and also to produce the text in both spoken and written form. The
unit is divided into two cycles. They are spoken cycle and written cycle in which each consists of several tasks.
In Unit 3, there are 25 tasks: 3 tasks belong to warm-up activities, 10 tasks belong to reading and writing activities, 11 tasks belong to listening and speaking
activities, and 1 task belongs to homework activity. The description of each task is in Appendix E.
5. The Expert Judgment
After the first draft of the materials was developed, the next step was the expert judgment. As the name, in this step, the materials were evaluated and
judged by an expert. The expert was Suharso, M.Pd. He is a lecturer of English Education Department of Yogyakarta State University who has thirty-year
experience of teaching. The results of the expert judgment will be elaborated as follows:
