Stating Competency Standard, Basic Competences, and Topics

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a. Stating Competency Standard, Basic Competences, and Topics

Every school in Indonesia has been applied KTSP or School-Based Curriculum which was instructed by the government. This curriculum had some goals and purposes. The goals and general purposes of the designed material were adopted from the school curriculum, and are presented in Table 4.1. Table 4.1: The Goals and General Purposes of the Materials Competency Standards Basic Competences Reading first semester 5. Be able to understand meanings in short functional texts and simple essays in the forms of daily life context reports, narratives, and analytical expositions to access information. 5.1 Be able to respond to meanings in short written formal and informal daily life texts i.e. banner, poster, brochure, etc accurately, fluently, and acceptably. 5.2 Be able to respond to meanings and rhetorical steps in essays of daily life report, narrative, and analytical exposition accurately, fluently, and acceptably in order to access information Reading second semester 11. Be able to understand meanings in short functional texts and simple essays in the forms of daily life context narratives, spoofs and hortatory expositions to access information. 11.1 Be able to respond to meanings in short written formal and informal daily life texts i.e. banner, poster, brochure, etc accurately, fluently, and acceptably. 11.2 Be able to respond to meanings and rhetorical steps in essays of daily life narrative, spoof and hortatory exposition accurately, fluently, and acceptably in order to access information Table 4.2 shows the goals and general purposes which should be achieved by the students. The goals which were listed in the table were the goals for English reading competences for the first and second semesters of eleventh grade students. Therefore, the materials were designed in order to help the students achieved the learning goals. 57 From the goals and general purposes, there were some topics that should be learned by the eleventh grade students in a year. For the reading competences, there were 5 types of texts and several functional texts. The topics are provided in Table 4.2. Table 4.2: The Learning Topics of the Materials No Learning Topics 1 Banner, pamphlet, poster, brochure 2 Report 3 Narrative 4 Analytical Exposition 5 Hortatory Exposition 6 Spoof

b. Specifying Learning Indicators