9 For the students, this study will help them to learn listening easily and
effectively. The writer had conducted the need analysis before by asking the students to fill in the questionnaires. It is obvious that these listening materials
really suit their needs. The materials also designed based on KTSP. Hopefully, the materials can help students to develop their listening skill in particular and
English in general and help them to be more active in the classroom. By using Cooperative Learning, students can be more familiar and having better
understanding and knowledge of English language. For other material designers, hopefully this study about designing
authentic listening materials can be a reference to develop and to design better authentic listening materials.
G. Definition of Terms
Some terms needed to be clarified to avoid misunderstanding. The terms that would be defined are the Instructional design, Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan
Pendidikan , Communicative Task, Cooperative Learning and Listening Materials.
1. Instructional Design
Kemp 1977: 6 defined an instructional design ‘as the development of the overall plan incorporating the interrelated parts of an instructional process in sequential
pattern’. Moreover, Banathy 1976: 16 explains that instructional design is ‘the interaction between the learners and his environment through with the learner is
making progress toward the attainment of specific and proposed knowledge, skill, and attitude’. In this study, the instructional design is defined as the whole process
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instructional materials.
2. Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan
In this study, Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan is defined as the curriculum where the indicators should be achieved through communicative activities in the
classroom.
3. Communicative Task
Communicative task is the piece of classroom work which involves learners in comprehending, manipulating, producing, or interacting in the target language
while their attention is principally focused on meanings rather than form Nunan 1988: 18. In this study the term communicative task is similar with Nunan’s
definition. Communicative task is a task that is used for activities, exercises and materials that encourages the students to understand, comprehend and to be able
to apply it in the real conversation.
4. Cooperative Learning.
Cooperative Learning is the instructional strategy use of small groups so that students work together to maximize their own and each other’s learning Johnson,
Johnson, and Holubec, 1994. Cooperative Learning refers to a method of instruction whereby student work together in groups to reach common goals.
5. Listening
In this study, listening is defined as an active and purposeful process of what we hear, and listening materials are defined as the activities, content, subject, and the
focus of the items that are going to be discussed and taught so that the students can develop their listening in order to be able to communicate actively
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6. Authentic
