120 • The designed learning activities can stimulate critical thinking since there are
brainstorming activities and evaluation activities where the students can criticize their friends using the provided evaluation form.
• Do not put to many activities in one meeting in order to expand students’ speaking skill optimally.
• The designed learning activities are applicable to be implemented in other time an other school as long there is a needs survey to find out the learners’ needs and interest.
• The instructions which are provided in the designed learning activities are clear enough. However, the teacher needs to be creative to adjust to the students’ needs and the learning
atmosphere in order to facilitate the learning activities well.
D. Materials
• The materials are very interesting and creative. However, the designer should edit some choices for the font type and font color that a little bit irritating.
• To the meeting 2, there should be an example of real story which is developed through the story structure frame.
• The same types of materials are easily found in the books or Internet as long the designer mentions and put the sources.
E. Difficulty level
• There are some difficult and unfamiliar vocabularies for the high school student’ level in the designed storytelling learning language. therefore, the designer should provide
glossary to facilitate the vocabularies learning.
F. The strengths of the design
• This designed storytelling learning activities have a good and interesting layout that will attract and motivate the learners to actively participate the learning activities. The content
of the design is also good. There are various activities that will facilitate the students’ PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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teach all the students to be fair. All students will be evaluated by everyone.
G. The weaknesses of the design
• There are some font colors that is irritating to eyes. It might decrease students’ motivation in
reading the materials, such as: the handouts and the song lyrics. • There are no glossary to help students learn difficult vocabularies
H. Criticism and suggestion
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Choose only three types of font types and font colors at the maximum to avoid the unclear font type and irritating font colors.
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Result of Design Validation Interview Raw Data
Date of Interview : February 7, 2009
Respondent : Th. Eka Oktavianti, S. Pd. English teacher of SMA PL Van Lith
A. Objectives of the design
• The designed learning activities have matched to the objectives of the design. The learning activities have met the students’ needs to be a good storytelling. There are
various activities that include the basic information and practice of storytelling up to the final performance as the last part of the activities in the end of the semester.
B. Method
