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and the students to improve their speaking skills. The researcher expects this research and the materials design can help improving students’ speaking
competence.
B. Research Problems
In conducting this research, the researcher composes two research problems. They are stated as follows.
1. How are speaking materials adopting information gathering technique for the
tenth grade students of SMA BOPKRI 2 Yogyakarta designed? 2.
What do the speaking materials look like?
C. Problem Limitations
Since this research is going to design speaking materials for the tenth grade students of SMA BOPKRI 2 Yogyakarta, the research will be focused on:
1. The speaking materials’ design, which is based on information gathering
techniques for tenth grade of SMA BOPKRI 2 Yogyakarta. To answer the first research problem, the researcher is going to conduct some steps of Research
and Development R D to design English speaking materials. The materials are going to be designed based on information gathering technique
since this strategy can assist the students to do some surveis, researches, and interviews to gather information surrounding them. The information collected
will use to construct their knowledge to learn some topics in speaking
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English. This process will help the students to construct their personal and interpersonal skill of communication.
2. The contents and the appearances of speaking materials design are based on
information gathering technique for tenth grade of SMA BOPKRI 2 Yogyakarta. To answer the second research problem, the researcher will focus
on the presentation of the the designed materials. The researcher is going to develop the topics, goals, contents, and some learning activities which will
facilitate the students to learn English better. The presentation will be designed interestingly to motivate the students in learning speaking.
D. Research Objectives
In this study, the researcher has two research objectives. They are stated as follows.
1. Designing the best speaking materials design for the tenth grade students
based on Communicative Language Teaching. The objective of this study is to design interesting and meaningful English speaking materials based on the
needs of the tenth grade students of SMA BOPKRI 2 Yogyakarta. The materials are going to be designed by using Communicative Language
Teaching since the researcher is going to create communicative speaking atmospher. As we know, in Comunicative Language Teaching the students
will often do some learning activities in group so they will be accustomed to speak English with others. It will encourage the students to use their
communication skills actively.
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2. Designing the contents and the appearances of speaking materials design
based on information gathering technique. Another objective of this research is to compose a set of speaking material for the tenth grade students of SMA
BOPKRI 2 Yogyakarta. The materials are going to be designed interestingly so it will not look boring and monotonous. There will be various activities
which support the teaching and learning process such as how to make a good conversation, conduct some surveis, conduct some mini researches, and
interview someone to find some information.
E. Research Benefits
