Background of the Study

their career after they have graduated from the school. The next problems related to the students are the lack of vocabulary and having low confidence in practicing speaking, so they have difficulties on how to maintain the oral communication process when they interact with other people. The other problems are related to the teacher, the teaching media, and the teaching and learning process. The teacher seldom uses classroom English; the teacher speaks more in bahasa Indonesia or bahasa Jawa in the teaching and learning process of English. The use of teaching media for English course and the amount of teaching material, especially for teaching speaking is still low; the teacher only uses students’ worksheet LKS in the teaching and learning process. In the teaching and learning process, the students are only asked to do the exercises in the students’ worksheet LKS and also translating words and sentences from English to bahasa Indonesia. This situation makes the teaching and learning process of English, especially speaking, is less maximized and monotone, so it will resist the student in practicing the oral communication in foreign language for their needs. Related to the materials for the teaching and learning process, as explained before, the teacher only uses students’ worksheet LKS for teaching in every meeting. The amount of course book is very limited. The other problem is that the teacher seldom develops materials to support the teaching and learning process, especially speaking. Besides that, the content of the students’ worksheet LKS is too general, not specified based on the learning needs of the students of automotive engineering, so it will resist the students in practicing and developing their speaking skill. In response to the conditions above, the researcher tries to develop an English speaking material for the students in SMK Sanjaya Ngawen. The researcher will also try to know the effectiveness of the material used for teaching speaking.

C. Limitation of the Problem

Based on some limitation, the researcher limits the problem into developing an English speaking material and task which is relevant to the curriculum and the learners’ capacity. It is conducted to find out what the learners need on the speaking skills which are relevant for their needs in their future.

D. Formulation of the Problem

Based on the limitation above, the researcher formulates the problem as follows: 1. What are the target needs of the eleventh grade students of automotive engineering in SMK Sanjaya Ngawen? 2. What are the learning needs of the eleventh grade students of automotive engineering in SMK Sanjaya Ngawen? 3. How can an English speaking material for the eleventh grade students of automotive engineering in SMK Sanjaya Ngawen be designed?

E. Objective of the Research

Based on the problem formulation above, the objectives of the research are: 1. To find out the target needs of the eleventh grade students of automotive engineering in SMK Sanjaya Ngawen. 2. To find out the learning needs of the eleventh grade students of automotive engineering in SMK Sanjaya Ngawen. 3. To design an English speaking material to be relevant for the eleventh grade students of automotive engineering in SMK Sanjaya Ngawen.

F. Significance of the Research

This research is expectantly hoped to give a valuable contribution to the following parties: 1. To the students of SMK Sanjaya Ngawen, the result of the research can be used as media for learning English, especially speaking, as anticipation for their needs.