Coordinate Support Services The Steps of Designing Speaking Materials Based on Communicative

Answering the close-ended questions, the participants also gave comments and suggestions for the improvement of the designed materials. The researcher, as the material developer, needs to make sure whether the design is for the teacher or the students or b oth. The researcher also must comprehend well the term „media‟ and to what the media refer to. Basically, the designed materials have met the desired competences and objectives but the researcher needs to add some more tasks. Reading passage is suitable to be included as one of the speaking materials. The topics presented in the materials are good as they are relevant to the students‟ daily routines. Various games are suitable to be put in each material designed. The researcher only needs to paraphrase the instructions in order to make them more understandable by the students. Besides the comments, the participants also give some suggestions regarding to the materials developed. Related to the materials, the researcher needs to explain well whether they are teacher‟s book or student‟s book. It is found that some instructions seem to be addressed to the teacher and some of them are for students. The researcher also needs to provide some reasons why the material organization is not similar in every unit. Related to the lesson plan, the researcher needs to have the complete versions when she develops a lesson plan. It is also important that the researcher needs to give questions to encourage students‟ speaking and analytical skill. It is also acceptable if the researcher adds reading and writing activities as an addition to the main activity. Such a provision is important for students to make them more prepared for the National Final Examination. From data of the participants‟ opinion, it was found that 93 of the participants agreed that the basic competences and the indicators of the designed materials were well formulated. The materials matched the basic competences and the indicators. Besides, they also agreed that the topics were well arranged and the content of materials was relevant to the theory of Communicative Language Teaching. It was also found that 87 of the participants agreed that the materials are suitable for the students of SMP Kanisius Pakem Yogyakarta and the theory of Communicative Language Teaching was well arranged in the designed materials. 80 of the participants agreed that the tasks were varied and well elaborated. Besides, the media used by the researcher were interesting to attract students attention. 73 of the participants agreed that the level of difficulty suited the students‟ level. Besides distributing questionnaires for the experts‟ validation, the researcher also interviewed some students related to the designed materials. The interviews were conducted three times, first was on September 23 rd , 2011, second was on October 28 th , 2011 and the last was on November 11 th , 2011. There were five participants randomly chosen by the researcher to be interviewed. The table on the next page shows the summary of the students‟ interview conducted in the field-testing.