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tasks. It will make the students to get involved more on speaking rather than writing. Since the students were interested in guessing words, the writer attempts
to design interesting and challenging tasks and games to create fun learning environment. It is expected that the students will be confident and more motivated
to practice their speaking because designing attractive materials which suit the children’s mental growth will raise their motivation. The pedagogical tasks will be
selected based on the results of the students’ needs survey. The topics will be chosen based on their needs and in accordance with the current curriculum, KTSP.
KTSP emphasizes on contextual learning which also offered by TBLT. According to Richard and Rodgers 2001:225, TBLT is an approach for real-world language
learning which shares its notion to relate contextual teaching and learning with teacher’s lack of motivating the students to use the target language.
This set of speaking instructional materials is supposed to achieve the goals of the English extracurricular activity. This set of designed materials includes
activities which provide the students with more chances to practice their speaking and making the students to be able to communicate simple daily conversation.
B. Problem Formulation
Based on the problems elaborated in the background of the research, there are two problems which will be solved as formulated in the following questions:
1. How is a set of speaking instructional materials based on Task-Based Language Teaching for the extracurricular activity of the 2
nd
graders of SD Pangudi Luhur Yogyakarta designed?
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2. What does the designed set of speaking instructional materials based on Task-Based Language Teaching for the extracurricular activity of the 2
nd
graders of SD Pangudi Luhur Yogyakarta look like?
C. Problem Limitation
The study is aimed at designing speaking instructional materials based on Task-Based Language Teaching for the extracurricular activity of the 2
nd
graders of SD Pangudi Luhur Yogyakarta. This study is focused on the materials
development which includes the speaking materials and instructions based on Task-Based Language Teaching Approach.
The topics of the materials are arranged based on the needs survey and in accordance with the current curriculum, KTSP. It is aimed at motivating the
students with the topics that they need and want to learn. The topics chosen are derived from their interests and needs as the results of participant observation and
interview. At the end of the study, the designed materials are presented without implementing them to find out their effectiveness.
D. Research Objectives
There are two main objectives proposed in this study: 1. To develop speaking instructional materials based on Task-Based
Language Teaching for the extracurricular activity of the 2
nd
graders of SD Pangudi Luhur Yogyakarta.
2. To present designed set of speaking instructional materials based on Task-Based Language Teaching for the extracurricular activity of the 2
nd
graders of SD Pangudi Luhur Yogyakarta.
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E. Research Benefits
This study is conducted to bring benefits for those who are mentioned below:
1. The 2
nd
graders of SD Pangudi Luhur Yogyakarta The speaking materials are proposed to make the 2
nd
graders of SD Pangudi Luhur Yogyakarta able to start as well as respond to simple daily
conversation and provide more chances to practice speaking through the tasks based on Task-Based Language Teaching. Task-Based Language
Teaching allows them to do real world tasks which make them use the simple daily conversation utterances. Besides, the students will be
interested to learn since the topics presented based on their needs and interests. Various tasks types motivate the students to practice speaking in
forms of creative games, singing songs, matching, and others. 2.
English extracurricular teachers This study is aimed at offering the teacher with a different approach in
teaching speaking in the extracurricular activity. Besides, it gives the teachers broader knowledge about conducting Task-Based Language
Teaching in the extracurricular activity as well as motivates the teachers to be more creative in designing speaking materials in order to bring the
learning process to the fullest. 3.
Other researchers This study aims to motivate the other researchers who are interested in
developing speaking instructional materials or activities for the English
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extracurricular activity. Therefore, they can use the design materials as the guidance to design other speaking materials in different levels.
F. Definition of Terms
