Selecting Teaching-Learning Activities and Instructional Resources

64 Take Your Turn - Individual task Unit 5 Stars are sparkling Get Ready Start Talking Focus In Talk Some More Take Your Turn - Discussion, Questions and Answers - Practicing dialogues - Acting from scripts - Lecturer - Discussion - Role-play and simulation in pairs and in groups - Communication games whole class - Individual task Unit 6 I love numbers Get Ready Start Talking Focus In Talk Some More Take Your Turn - Discussion, Questions and Answers - Practicing dialogues - Acting from scripts - Lecturer - Discussion - Role-play and simulation in pairs - Communication games whole students - Individual task Unit 7 Raise your hand Get Ready Start Talking Focus In Talk Some More Take Your Turn - Discussion, Questions and Answers - Practicing dialogues - Acting from scripts - Lecturer - Discussion - Role-play and simulations in pairs - Communication games in groups - Individual task Unit 8 What can I do for you, Sir? Get Ready Start Talking Focus In Talk Some More Take Your Turn - Discussion, Questions and Answers - Practicing dialogues - Acting from scripts - Lecturer - Discussion - Role-play and simulation in pairs and in groups - Individual task After listing the activities, the writer listed the instructional resources for every unit. Here are the instructional resources of every unit: 65 Table 4.8: List of Instructional Resources Units Instructional Resources Unit 1 Hi How are you? - Dialogues about greeting and leave taking - Explanations about greeting and leave taking - Situations for acting from scripts, role-plays and simulations - Tables of signatures for communication games - Incomplete dialogue for individual task Unit 2 My name’s Leo - Dialogues about introducing oneself and others - Explanations about introducing oneself and others - Information for simulations and role-play - Instructions for communication games - Incomplete dialogue for individual task Unit 3 I’m sorry …. - Dialogues about thanking and apologizing - Explanations about thanking and apologizing - Situations for acting from scripts, role-plays and simulations - Issues for discussion in group work - Form for writing reflection Unit 4 She’s very popular - Dialogues about describing people - Explanations about describing people - Pictures of public figure for describing people - Incomplete sentences for individual task Unit 5 Stars are sparkling - Dialogues about describing things - Explanations about describing things - Table for communication games - Pictures of things - Incomplete sentences for individual task Unit 6 I love numbers - Dialogues about time, date and price - Explanations about time, date and price - Situations for role-plays and simulations - Table for communication games - Table of exercises for individual task Unit 7 Raise your hand - Dialogues about command and request - Explanations about command and request - Situations for role-plays and simulations - Blind drawing game - Situations for individual task Unit 8 - Dialogues about offering things and helps 66 What can I do for you, Sir? - Explanations about offering things and helps - Situations for role-plays and simulations - Menus for role-plays and simulations - Unarranged dialogue for individual task

6. Evaluating the Materials

After finishing the designed materials, the writer evaluated the materials by distributing the materials and questionnaires to the English teachers and lectures. The respondents were expected to give their judgments, opinions and suggestions toward the designed materials. The respondents’ feedbacks and suggestions helped the writer to make the designed materials to be better.

7. Revising the Materials

After obtaining the evaluation from the respondents, the writer revised the materials. The revision was made based on the feedbacks and suggestions from the respondents. After revising the designed materials, the writer presented the final version of the instructional speaking materials.

B. Findings of the Evaluation on the Designed Materials

In this part, the writer will show the description of respondents of designed evaluations, description of the data evaluation and respondents’ opinions and suggestions on the designed materials. 67

1. Description of Respondents

The respondents of materials evaluation were three teachers of SMK Negeri 7 Yogyakarta and two lecturers of English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University. The respondents were described as follows: Table 4.9: Description of the Respondents Respondents Educational Background Teaching Experiences in years S1 S2 0-10 11-20 21-30 30 Teacher 1 √ √ Teacher 2 √ √ Teacher 3 √ √ Lecturer 1 √ √ Lecturer 2 √ √

2. Description of the Data

The writer distributed the questionnaires to the respondents to obtain the evaluations on the designed materials. The respondents gave their evaluation by choosing the representative number ranging 1 to 5 as the degrees of agreement. The five degrees of agreement are as follows: 1 = strongly disagree very poor 2 = disagree poor 3 = doubtful undecided 4 = agree good 5 = strongly agree very good The result of the evaluation was described in the table below: 68 Table 4.10: Description of the Data No. The Respondents’ Opinion Central Tendencies N Mean Median Mode 1. The indicators are well formulated. 5 4.2 4 4 2. The topics are well arranged. 5 4.4 4 4 3. The instructions are clear and helpful for the teacher and the students 5 4.2 4 4 4. The number of activities in each unit has been sufficient for the time given. 5 4 4 4 5. The materials are suitable and appropriate for the tenth grade students of Vocational High School. 5 3.8 4 4 6. Generally, the tasks activities are well elaborated and provide the much opportunity for the students to speak English. 5 4 4 4 7. Generally, the exercises are variously given and interesting so that they can draw students’ interest to learn English. 5 4.4 4 4 8. The designed materials provide the tasks needed to develop speaking skill. 5 4.2 4 4 9. The materials are closely related with the students’ real life. 4 3.2 4 4 10. The number of activities in each unit has been sufficient for the time given 5 3.8 4 4 Grand Mean 4.01