The Revision of Unit 3

materials concerns with the specific topics related to the needs of students ’ study program. The decided topics are also in line with the result of needs analysis in which most of the students want English Reading materials that are contextualized to computer engineering and networking. The developed materials consist of three units and each of them follows the standard competence on KTSP curriculum. Unit 1 was derived from standard of competence of 1.3. Describing things, people, characteristic, time, days, months, year which focuses on describing computer and peripheral products and their uses. The text type on unit 1 was descriptive text and the language focus is Simple Present Tense and the order of adjectives. Unit 2 was derived fromstandard of competence of 1.6. Understanding memos and simple menus, itinerary, and traffic signs which concerns with memos about computer shop and service centre and menus on computer maintenance and service.The grammar focus is about imperative verbs on memos and degrees of comparison on menus. Unit 3 was derived from standard of competence of 1.7 Understanding foreign terms and sentences based on certain formulas . It focuses on web applications and the technical terms related to computer engineering and networking. The unit organization is adapted from Nunan 2004 which covers sequencing, grading, and integrating units and tasks. The theory states that the easier topics should come first. It can be seen that since the target needs are students on grade X, the topics should be simple since they are still beginners so the topics also should be in line with their level of cognitive related to their major. The first topic is simply about describing about features of computer products and peripherals that they are already familiar with then on the second topic it focuses on the memos and menus related to computer services, and the last unit concerns with the technical terms that they usually found in their study program. Each of the units consists of three parts: introduction warm-up, main lesson let’s read and reinforcement let’s review. Those parts are relevant with the steps proposed by Nunan 2004. When the first draft of the materials is already finished, it was evaluated by the expert to know the quality of the materials. The evaluation is employed by distributing 31 questions based on BSNP. The questionnaire consists of four aspects to evaluate; they are content appropriateness, language appropriateness, presentation appropriateness, and layout appropriateness. The expert gave feedbacks to the first draft that need to revise before getting the final draft of materials. The final score of the four aspects in the first draft is 3.33 which is in the range of 3.00 ≤x≤3.49. Itmeans that the developed materials entitled English Reading Materials for X year students of Computer Engineering and Networking Study Program is considered as appropriate with the predicate of “Good”.

C. Limitation of the Products

The product of this study has a limitation in which the developed materials only can be used in the schools which employ School-based Curriculum KTSP and cannot be implemented in the Curriculum 2013. The basic competence and the standard competence used are based on School-based Curriculum which are quiet different from the standard competence used in Curriculum 2013. The product is also limited in terms of the target needs. It is only effective to use for computer engineering and networking program grade X whose students are mostly at the beginner level. The input of the materials contains basic skills of English so it is only appropriate for the students with limited mastery of English and cannot be used for those with higher level of proficiency. 103

CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

The goals of this research study are to identify the target needs and the learning needs of the students grade X of Computer Engineering and Networking department at SMKN 1 Pundong and to develop appropriate English Reading learning materials for the students of the department. In this chapter, the conclusion of the research and the suggestions are presented.

A. Conclusions

1. Target Needs

Based on the research findings, the conclusions of the target needs can be drawn as follows. a. The main goal of the tenth grade students of Computer Engineering and Networking at SMKN 1 Pundong in learning English is to able to communicate actively and fluently in English as well as to get success in the National Examination for English subject. b. Most of the students consider themselves at the level of beginner in terms of English proficiency. It means that their English is still limited and the language they can communicate is quite simple. c. Most of the students want to work after graduating from vocational high schools. The capability of communicating in English, especially speaking and reading, are believed can support their career in the working field.

2. Learning Needs

The learning needs of the students can be grouped into some components. The first one is the input used in the developed materials. The students think that the effective length of the texts is no more than 350 words. They also state that they need vocabulary related to the discussed topics in each of the units. In terms of types of activities, most of students agree that they prefer to do the tasks by doing comprehensive tasks based on the provided texts. The students also want to get exposure in terms of grammar by doing grammar exercises and they want to do the tasks individually and in pairs. Regarding to learners’ roles, thestudents prefer to be involved and become active participants in the learning and teaching process while in terms ofteachers ’ role, the learners prefer the teacher to give explanation first about the materials before asking them to do the tasks. Teachers are also expected to guide the students to comprehend the texts and to introduce new vocabulary.

3. Characteristics of Reading Materials for Students of Computer Engineering and Networking

Based on the expert judgement, the materials developed in this study are considered to be appropriate. The final draft of the materials consists of three units which contain tasks in the range of 21-22. Unit 1 and unit 3 have 22 tasks while unit 2 consists of 21 tasks. The topics are around computer engineering and networking and students’ daily life. The materials are considered appropriate by the expert with some of characteristics. The following explanation describes the