Selecting teaching learning activities and materials

46 b. Respondents‟ opinions and suggestions Respondents‟ opinion and suggestion are needed to improve the designed materials. After giving feedback on the designed materials, the respondents also gave general opinions and suggestions about the designed materials on the questionnaire. The respondents‟ opinions and suggestions are desribed as follow. 1 The strenghts of the designed materials Both respondents gave opinion that the designed materials have good layout eye-catching. The color is enough. It is not too much or less. The length of texts are appropriate to the stud ents‟ proficiency level. Since the texts are too long, the students may get some dificulty or be bored. If the texts are too short, the students‟ reading skill may not be improved because the texts are not challenging. The materials of the designed materials also have interesting topics which are familiar to the st udents. The interesting topics can help teacher to grab students‟ attention. There are also many tasks that may stimulate the students to learn autonomously as an independent learner to accomplish the tasks. 2 The weaknesses of the designed materials The reading comprehension activities are a bit monotonous. Variation of the reading comprehension activities is needed. The questions of the reading comprehension mostly focus on explicitly stated informations. Students will easily find the answer. Then, almost all the tasks are testing students. There are also some grammatical mistakes so that revision is needed. Besides, there are some problems concerning spelling, punctuation, and diction. 47 3 Respondents‟ suggestions The respondents suggested that the writer had better adopt a more conventional form of recipes and make sure the information on text type is accurate. The writer should arrange the activities to be more varied, especially for the reading comprehension activities. The respondent suggested that it would be better if the activities are not testing students. The activities should make students think critically.

7. Revising the set of supplementary reading materials

In this part, the writer revised and improved the set of supplementary reading materials by considering the suggestions from the evaluators. The writer had revised the appearance and the content of the materials.

a. The appearance of the materials

The appearance of the materials did not need many revisions. The writer changed the pictures in some units which were not appropriate to the text. The writer also changed some pictures which were not clear enough, such as some pictures in unit 3 and 4. The writer selected pictures which was not only interesting, but also clear. The cover of the materials was also changed to be more interesting.

b. The content of the materials

The revision, modification, and improvement of the designed materials related to the content of the materials are mentioned as follow.