The eleventh grade students of senior high school are chosen for this research since they have been provided with and exposed to various language
structures in English lessons. They are supposed to master more complex grammar patterns. The School-based Curriculum emphasizes giving more portions
to the reading skill in learning English at senior high school. Meanwhile, reading texts supply various language structures to be mastered in order to comprehend
their content. This makes grammar greatly important in mastering the reading skill. The demand of more portions in mastering reading skill appears in response
to the National Final Examination in which most questions in the examination are provided with reading texts. Moreover, the sections which contain grammar
learning in the textbook used by the 11
th
grade students of Senior High School are always preceded by reading texts.
This research took place in SMAN 1 Depok, Yogyakarta since this Senior High School has applied the School-based Curriculum in teaching learning
process. One of the indicators is that the students’ main textbook is based on the content standard of School-based Curriculum 2006. In addition, based on the
writer’s experience in conducting teaching practice in SMAN 1 Depok, the 11
th
grade students have a high interest in language structure, in spite of their difficulty in comprehending grammar.
B. Problem Formulation
By conducting this research, the researcher would like to find the answers to two major questions.
1. How is a set of supplementary instructional grammar materials using
Contextual Teaching and Learning for the 11
th
grade students of SMAN 1 Depok Yogyakarta designed?
2. How does a set of supplementary instructional grammar materials using
Contextual Teaching and Learning for the 11
th
grade students of SMAN 1 Depok Yogyakarta look like?
C. Problem Limitation
This research focused on the design of instructional grammar materials. This design concerned the English instructional grammar materials, which were
correlated with the particular context, and the materials were specifically designed for the need of the 11
th
grade students of Senior High School, particularly of the 2
nd
semester students. Context here is the real life situation related to the learner actual environment and experience. Therefore, in this study, the topics and
grammar items chosen followed the contexts which are related to the real situation experienced by the 11
th
grade students of SMAN 1 Depok, Yogyakarta.
D. Research Objectives
There are two objectives of conducting this research. 1.
To find out how a set of supplementary instructional grammar materials using Contextual Teaching and Learning for the 11
th
grade students of SMAN 1 Depok Yogyakarta is designed.
2. To present a set of supplementary instructional grammar materials using
Contextual Teaching and Learning for the 11
th
grade students of SMAN 1 Depok Yogyakarta.
E. Research Benefits
The result of this research should be beneficial for some parties. a
Teachers For teachers, this research could be a recommendation for them to encourage
the students in mastering English grammar. This material design might help the teachers to improve their techniques, strategies, and creativity in teaching
English grammar for Senior High School. b
Students For students, this study was expected to help them to be better in learning
English grammar by correlating it to their real life experience, which would attract their interest in learning.
c Future Researchers
For future researchers, this research finding was expected to be an inspiration in contributing a meaningful idea to create a material design for them and in
searching another finding.
F. Definition of Terms
