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B. The Presentation of the Designed Materials
In order to answer the second question in research problem, the researcher presented the designed materials. The materials were the final version one, which
had been revised after conducting evaluation. The designed materials consisted of six units, as presented in Table 4.5.
Table 4.5: The List of Units Provided in the Designed Materials Unit
Text Genre Title
1 Narrative text
Once Upon a Time 2
My Happy Ending 3
Descriptive text That’s What Friends are for
4 Roll Your Board Everywhere
5 News Item
News for Whole World 6
Sound-sations of Music
One topic covered two units and one unit was intended for one meeting which had 2 x 45 minutes. Each unit would consist of six sections. They were:
1. Roll Your Board This first section stimulated students to be ready to learn and to focus on
the materials. The section provided activities that would be easily followed by students. The activities provided were writing prompts, quick writing, matching,
guessing, and oral activities. 2. Grammar Zone
This was the first section in writing part. This provided grammar information related to the topic being learnt. In this section, students understood
61 the information by reading the explanation. This section was the gate to the main
writing activities. 3. Happy Writing
This section provided longer time for students to make the writing products. However, it also provided the explanation on the generic structure of a
genre text being learnt. Besides, doing exercises on particular language features was also facilitated in this section.
4. Get Betterment This section was the first one in post writing activities. Here, students
engage in the activivity by sharing, editing, or giving suggestions toward students’
writings. The activities were done in pair groups, or small groups. 5. End It Well
This last section of a unit was a reflective activity. Here, students wrote everything related to the lesson has been learnt. Besides, students also conveyed
their comment on the lesson. This was done individually. Most sections in the design assigned students to improve their English
writing skills by writing and writing. This aimed to expand their knowledge by learning grammar and using new vocabulary by applying Communicative
Language Teaching approach.