The Course Grid The Unit Design The First Draft of Materials

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2. The Course Grid

The course grid is the guideline of the materials that are going to develop. The course grid is designed by referring to the results of the questionnaire by picking the highest percentage of the respondents. The developed course grid consists of the topic of the unit, language functions, vocabulary list, pronunciation focus, grammar point, and tasks to develop the listening and speaking skills of the students. The course grid can be seen in Appendix C.

3. The Unit Design

Each unit consists of some tasks which cover two language skills, listening and speaking. In the introduction part, there are a unit title, a picture, and learning objectives. The unit title is related to the language functions taken form one of the expressions used to carry out the language functions explained in the unit. The picture below the unit title describes the unit title. Then, in the main teaching and learning part, there are Pre Task, Task Cycle, and Language Focus section. Pre-Task provides tasks to elicit the students’ ackground knowledge of the topic. This section is followed y Task Cycle that covers listening and speaking activities. Language Focus focuses on language functions and grammar activities. The last part is reinforcement. The reinforcement consists of Reflection and Vocabulary List. The availability of the Reflection is essential 74 to check the students’ understanding towards the materials. Vocabulary List is designed in the last page of the unit to provide a list of difficult words related to the topic of the unit in the unit. The design of the unit is shown in the figure below. Figure 4.1: The Unit Design

4. The First Draft of Materials

The materials were developed based on the course grid as the first draft that can be seen in Appendix D. The first draft consists of four units in which each unit consist 13 tasks. The units are developed in line with the unit design. Each of them consists of three parts, i.e. introduction that covers unit title and learning objectives, main lesson that covers Pre-Task, Task Cycle, and Language Focus, and reinforcement that deals with reflection and vocabulary list. The description of the units can be seen in Appendix E. Unit Design Introduction Main Lesson Reinforcement Learning Objectives Unit Title Task Cycle Language Focus Pre-Task Vocabulary List Reflection 75

5. The Expert Judgment