The Final Course Grid The Final Product

The evaluation of the second draft result the revision of the final draft. Therefore, the second course grid was also revised. There were not many revisions in the final course grid. The course grid of final draft was shown in the Appendix E.

2. The Final Product

The final product covers four topics, which were developed into four units. They are Public Places, Recreation Equipment, Kinds of Profession, and My Universe. All the units focus on listening and speaking. But there are two units also involve writing skill, in Public Places and Recreation Equipment. Each unit in the final product consists of six parts. The frame work of the units was presented below. Unit Title A. Warming Up. B. Look, Hear and Say C. Let’s Do It D. Break time E. Yes I Can F. Let’s Go Home The first part, Warming Up is developed in the beginning of each unit. In this part, the children learn some expressions that will be useful in doing the activities for that day. The second part, Look, Hear and Say is developed as the first main activity for the children. It gives the children general information about the topic. The third part, Let’s Do It is set in the form of input giving activities. The purpose of these activities is giving the children language input and a context for the learning. The fourth part, Break Time gives the children chance to have a break for a while and also to learn some expressions that will be useful during the break time. In the fifth part, Yes I Can, the children are producing the input given before. This part was created to support the language learning in the previous part through fun and interesting ways. The sixth part, Let’s Go Home was set to give a chance for children to review the material and to finish the lesson that day by saying goodbye.

CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS, IMPLICATIONS and SUGGESTIONS

A. Conclusions

On the basis of the objective of the study, this study aims at developing English Day Program materials and finding out the characteristics of appropriate materials, activities, and media for children in class B of TKIT Salsabila 2 Banguntapan. In regard with the objective, the researcher gets two conclusions. There are the steps conducted in developing the English materials, the developed English materials themselves for kindergarten at TKIT Salsabila 2 Banguntapan. The detail explanations about the conclusions are presented as follows. 1. The steps conducted in developing the English materials This research belongs to the Research and Development study, which consists of several steps to be carry out, i.e. conducting the needs analysis, writing the course grid, developing the English materials, implementing the materials, evaluating the materials, and writing the final drafts of the materials. In this study, the researcher used two forms instruments. They were in the forms of questionnaire and interviews. 2. The developed English materials’ characteristics The English Day Materials were developed based on the needs analysis. There four units for the topics Public Places, Recreation Equipment, Kinds of Profession, My Universe which have been developed. The materials in each unit consist of the components of the tasks proposed by Nunan 1989: 40, namely goal, input, activity, learner role, teacher role, and setting. Further, on the basis of the findings the second questionnaires and interviews, the research findings show that the children and the teacher agreed with the developed English materials. The researcher provides plenty interesting learning resources for them, such as games, songs, stories, movies, and role playing. The developed materials also have routines. Children benefit from knowing the rules and being familiar with the situation. So that materials should have systems and routines. The results indicate that the average point of each unit that implemented in the class was 3,9 to 4,25. The result of the average computation indicated that the children and the teacher agreed with the developed English materials. In addition, the result of the research showed that the developed English materials were needed to be implemented for kindergarten level. The developed English materials gave the children the opportunity to be familiar with English. In conclusion the English materials which are appropriate for English Day program for children of class B in TKIT Salsabila 2 Banguntapan have characteristics as presented below. a. The materials accommodate the topics based on the kindergarten syllabuses. b. The input of the materials should be related to the children’s daily life. c. The media include pictures and realia. d. The media are interesting and various in order to avoid the children from getting bored, including physical activity