Because of its importance, the materials are designed by fulfilling many requirements to be good learning materials. However, the problem appeared in
the English classroom when the materials given are not interesting and make the students motivation to learn English is low. From the class observation,
sometimes the materials given did not match to the students needs. Through the observation, it could be seen that the materials only from
the English textbook and students worksheet. The students just spent their time to do some task such as reading a text and answering some exercise so that the
students might easily feel bored in the classroom. From the interview, the teacher said that she arranged lesson plans
based on the syllabus. However, not all activities mentioned in the lesson plans could be applied in the teaching and learning processes. It was caused by the
limited time. She also confirmed that the materials given were sometimes not in accordance with the materials mentioned in lesson plans.
Therefore, using the interesting material in learning English will be one of the smart solutions for this problem. One of the interesting materials is the
use of authentic material such as newspaper. The use of newspaper can motivate the students to learn English easily and interestingly.
III. Limitation of the Problems
Since there is a large number of English teaching materials that can be developed and based on the background of the study and the problem
identification above, this study is limited to the material in the form of the
newspaper based English reading and can be flexibly used for teaching grade
XI of SMA N 2 Ngaglik.
IV. Formulation of the Problems
The problems are formulated in the following question: How can newspaper-based be developed for English teaching materials for
the students grade XI of SMA N 2 Ngaglik?
V. Objectives of the Study
Based on the formulation of the problem above, the objective of this study is to develop suitable English reading materials for students of SMA N 2
Ngaglik grade XI.
VI. Product Specifications
The product from developing the materials as a book English reading materials for students grade XI through newspaper-based which are consists of
several units of learning. Units that are in this book have been adapted to the curriculum in the school. All texts in this book are derived from newspaper and
tasks contained in the book are based on learning through the newspaper. There are also various kinds tasks about reading comprehension to improve reading
skills and also tasks based newspaper, so that students can learn through reading the newspaper.
VII. Significances of the Study
This research is expected to have some advantages for all the participants involved both in this research and the English teaching and
learning reading through stories. They are: 1.
For the media developers of English for SMA It is expected that the result of this study can be used as a useful reference
for the material developer, especially for those who developed material for teaching in Senior High School.
2. For English Education Department of Yogyakarta States University
The result of this study can be used as a source of material and activities in English teaching and learning process in Senior High School in the future.
3. For other teachers of English
This study is expected to provide them an alternative material to teach English for Senior High School and also to inspire and motivate them to be
more innovative in developing an interesting and effective material to teach English.
4. For other researchers
This study is expected to be a reference for them in conducting another similar study, especially in the field of material development.
VIII. Assuming Development
