Data Collecting Technique METHODS

Evaluation and revision 9. Evaluating the developed materials for revision This research was then conducted in the following 4 main steps: Step 1. Need Analysis The needs analysis was administered on September, 2015. Its purpose was to gather the information of learners ’ target and learning needs. The data were analysed as the basis of developing English learning materials for the ten grade students of Hotel Accommodation Program at SMK Negeri 1 Metro, academic year 20152016. A survey by distributing questionnaires on the students’ need was conducted to find out the lack, need and want. An informal interview was conducted to ten senior students eleventh grade having returned from their apprentice program to get input for the developed materials matching to hotel’s need. Step 2. Developing Materials. The first step was conducted to observe some references related to the designed materials, like the theory of instructional development, and the theory of English Language Teaching ELT. The writer analyzed the existing materials from the school’s vocational English syllabus to state the instructional goals and objectives of teaching and learning English for the tenth year students of Hotel Accomodation Program of Vocational High School. In developing the ESP materials, Kemp’s model was modified into a simpler model. The materials were taken from the goals and objectives listed in the vocational English syllabus. The goals and objectives were developed into some activities to increase the students’ communicative skills. The printed and online texts and dialogues were selected in the development. After the materials were ready, the draft 1 evaluation survey was conducted by distributing questionnaires and materials to 2 English teachers of SMK Negeri 1 Metro and 2 lecturers from International Hotel Management School, Solo, and Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, to get their suggestions and opinions on the designed materials. The evaluations from the respondents were needed to see the quality of the materials . Step 3. Try Out Some parts of the developed materials were tried out to the tenth grade students of Hotel Accommodation program to find out if the materials had met their need. The teacher presented the materials with a projector. After all the materials were tried out, the teacher gave the students the PDF form of the given materials and the link of online version of the materials. A questionnaire was distributed to get the students’ opinions about the materials in the e-book. The data gathered from the try out showed the strengths and weaknesses of the designed material. Step 4. Evaluation and Revision The data from the try out and expert judgement then were evaluated and analyzed to get a conclusion of overall performance of the developed materials.