3 have good facilities in learning process, the motivation of the students to learn
something is high, and the important thing that there were no permanent materials for the students. As the compulsory Extracurricular Activity, English
Extracurricular Activity is held to help the students develop the speaking skill.
B. Research Problem
The problem of this study is stated in the following question: What do speaking materials using task-based learning for the seventh grade
students of English Extracurricular Activity at SMP Pangudi Luhur Yogyakarta look like?
C. Problem Limitation
As what has been mentioned in the research background, this research is aimed at designing speaking materials using task-based learning for the seventh
grade students of English Extracurricular Activity at SMP Pangudi Luhur Yogyakarta. The researcher chooses SMP Pangudi Luhur Yogyakarta as the
subject of this study because SMP Pangudi Luhur Yogyakarta is one of the well- known schools in Yogyakarta which has a purpose to prepare the students to have
the skill in speaking English. The researcher selects the seventh grade students because they need to have basic English speaking skill to support their next level
of education. This research only focuses on the design of speaking materials based on
the students’ need at English Extracurricular Activity. Because of the English
4 Extracurricular Activity supports the regular-school time activity, thus, the
researcher needs to consider the use of the 2013 Curriculum. The 2013 Curriculum itself is used to support the topic selection of the designed materials.
This research is also only used for the seventh grade students of SMP Pangudi Luhur Yogyakarta in their English Extracurricular Activity.
D. Research Objective
As this research is intended to find out the answer of the problem, the researcher has an objective. The researcher expects that there would be speaking
materials using task-based learning for the seventh grade students of English Extracurricular Activity at SMP Pangudi Luhur Yogyakarta at the end of the
research.
E. Research Benefits
This research is expected to bring the benefits that can reflect on the students, the teacher, and future researchers who conduct the same research.
1. For the students
The students are facilitated with comprehensible materials which can improve their speaking skill. The designed materials provide well-developed and
competent English speaking materials for the students, which are based on the scientific study.
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For the teacher The teacher is given a set of English speaking materials that is expected to
be a solution in facilitating the students ’ need in learning English. This material
provides references for the teacher to give new ways of learning speaking skill. 3.
For the school The school will obtain the speaking materials for the English
Extracurricular Activity which supports the learning process in the regular-school time. The designed materials will help the school to increase
the students’ competence in speaking through learning other skills of English.
4. For future researchers
This research can be used by the other researchers to be the basic of evaluating, programming and reconstructing the same study. The researcher tries
to share the idea and knowledge in designing a new educational product which provides a new concept for the other researchers who have the same concern.
F. Definition of Terms
