materials for the tenth grade students of boga department at SMK N 4 Yogyakarta. She also designed three units for three basic competences.
The researches mentioned above were done successfully. All the units which they developed meet the students
‟ need in English learning process. It means that the research on materials development for vocational schools is needed
to facilitate students with sufficient and appropriate inputs and tasks based on their target situation.
C. Conceptual Framework
Students of vocational high school are expected to have skills according to their field including the communication skill. They are expected to not only able
to communicate in their first language, but also English as the international language. Nowadays, English language ability is very important to be possessed
since in this globalization era people are able to go to places around the world easily. Since English is a „lingua franca‟ or language as the bridge of
communication for people around the world, this language uses for many sectors of life especially that involved people with different languages.
In nursing department, students are expected to be able to look after patients. The patients are sometimes foreigners. Then, to be able to look after
those kinds of patients, students must able to communicate in English. Therefore, English knowledge from school were expected to give sufficient skills for
students. Unfortunately, English skills that were being taught in school were not enough because they were only being taught of general English. The teacher used
textbook that actually designed for Senior High School, it was not specially designed for vocational high school. However, the students of nursing department
need the kind of English lesson that related to their needs and interests in nursing field.
Related to this problem, the researcher developed English learning materials for nursing department since that was urgent to be conducted regarding
the unavailability of English materials for nursing department. The English materials established the students need. This research was expected to provide
English learning materials that could help students to use English for their future work. Therefore, the researcher focused on developing learning materials for the
second semester of the tenth graders of nursing department in SMK Kesehatan Rahani Husada in the form of learning materials based on the School-Based
Curriculum. The contents of the materials followed the Task-Based Language
Teaching. The materials in this research were arranged according to the nursing term by providing appropriate tasks and vocabulary related to nursing field. The
process of material development used the model proposed by Jolly and Bolitho as cited in Tomlinson 1998: 98 with some changes to match the steps of
developing the materials.
