Section Procedure
The pre-writing stage Introducing elements in writing skill
Language Focus Explaining key structure of language use
The whilst-writing stage Facilitating and monitoring them to do exercise The post-writing stage
Facilitating and monitoring the tasks Giving feedback to their writing
E. Evaluating the Instructional Materials1 of the Second Survey Research
To evaluate the materials developed in step 4, materials and questionnaires will be distributed to English instructors who have experience
in teaching Dentistry students. The questionnaire will be followed up by a series of interviews and discussions.
This section presents the descriptive statistics of the second survey
data. To support the answer to the second problem, it can be seen that the set
of writing tasks designed to develop the learners’ academic writing skills, as proposed in this research paper, have fulfilled the requirements of suitable
and relevant materials. This is shown from the results of the errors analysis and the second survey research respondent’s opinions on the designed
materials. The range of scales was 1-5. The mean score of the answers was 4.0. This means that most the respondents agree that the designed set of
writing tasks has fulfilled the requirements of suitable materials. The instructional materials, that is, the set of writing tasks are able to develop
academic writing skills because the materials are relevant to the student’ needs.
F. Revision the Instructional Materials.
The result of the materials evaluation will be used as an important input for revising the instructional materials. This will then lead to the final
step of this study.
1. The Second Research Respondents’ General Evaluation and Suggestions
From the questionnaires distributed and the interviews conducted, the second survey research respondents’ general opinions and suggestions on the
design of the instructional materials for the students of the Dentistry faculty are presented in this part.
a. The second Survey Research Respondents’ General Evaluation Based on the questionnaires, the second survey research
respondents’ general opinions on the design of the instructional materials for the Dentistry students are as follows:
• Materials are relevant to the needs of Dentistry students. • The material design is well structured and developed that is relevant
and not too sophisticated for the students. • It suits the objectives formulated, but the level of difficulty is slightly
higher than the students’ actual competence. • The materials are quite good and interesting
• The materials are thoughtfully designed and sufficiently developed. • The materials are interesting as they cover many different readings,
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b. The Second Survey Research Respondents’ General Suggestions From the recorded interviews, the second survey research
respondents gave suggestions as follows: • A few lessons should be reordered to attain a logical sequence.
• It is better to provide more opportunities for the students to jointly prepare several assignments. This will provide more opportunities for
class discussion. As a result the materials will be more challenging and interesting.
• Though the topic has been determined in the lesson plan for each unit, the sub-topics are at times not related. It would be better if related sub-
topics were used. • It would be better to provide more semi-guided materials for the lower
level students. Vocabulary enrichment should also be provided. • It would be more interesting to keep providing challenging current
issues. • It would be easier to focus on a limited amount of information or
charts at first, while focusing on the general outline of the writing task. Putting in place steps to guide the students, starting from the first unit
and strengthening the steps again and again along the way, can be one way of encouraging the students to expand their choice of words, as
well as to use more complicated grammar. It will also encourage students to write and increase their confidence in doing so.
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present correct English to the students.
2. Discussion on the Design Materials Evaluation
The data presented show the respondents’ opinion towards each statement. The descriptive statistics show that most of the respondents agree
with the statements in the questionnaires. The mean of the respondents’ points of agreement that is 3.4 to 4.00, shows that they agree on the use of the
designed materials for developing the Dentistry students’ academic writing skill.
The disagreement with statement 4 shows that the material should be modified in such as way that it will be more challenging and interesting for
the students. The disagreement with statement 10 shows that the organization of the material needs to be well structured so as to avoid confusion. The tasks
at each section are not only aimed at providing the language knowledge and skills needed for carrying out the main tasks of writing, but also aimed at
conveying the relevant information needed for individual writing. The writing tasks developed have fulfilled the requirements of
appropriate writing material for developing learners’ academic writing skill as evaluated by the second survey research respondents. Despite their agreement
about the designed materials they also pointed out some weaknesses and recommended a few changes. The researcher found such input valuable and
used it to make some modifications to the material. The completed material will be presented in the last section. This material will be the final result of a
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provide appropriate instructional materials for the Dentistry students of Gadjah Mada University in an attempt to develop their academic writing skill.
G. Writing the Final Draft of the Materials
After the revision and improvement have been completed in the previous step, the final draft of the writing tasks to develop academic skills
for Dentistry students of Gadjah Mada University will be written.
H. Presenting the Final Version of the Designed Materials
This part is intended to answer the last questions formulated in the problem formulation. This part is a technical presentation of the designed
writing tasks, the second survey research respondents’ general evaluation and suggestions.
CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
In this chapter, two major topics are presented as the conclusion of the study. First, the writer presents the conclusions drawn largely from the findings
and analyzes as outlined in chapter 4. The conclusions are presented as the answers to the problems formulated in chapter 1 of this study. Second,
suggestions are proposed to the current and future instructors of English for the Dentistry students and those who intend to conduct further research in this field.
A. Conclusions
The aim of the study is to answer two questions formulated in the problem formulation, namely, how a set of academic writing skill is designed
and what a set of writing tasks should look like. Firstly, in order to answer the first question on how to develop the instructional materials, two combined
models of instructional designs were employed, i.e. Hutchinson and Waters’ and Kemp’s model. The steps recommended in the two models were
identifying learner, analyzing learning and target situation, determining learning objectives, listing the subject content, making a choice of learning
activities determining support services and evaluating instructional. From the second survey research respondent opinion of the designed materials, it can
be seen that between the ranges of scales 1-5 the mean scores of the answer were 4.0. It means that most of the respondents agree that the designed set of
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