Product Development The Development Process of the Material
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students were easier in understanding the text since they have a kind of list of some words that they might not know the meaning.
Exercises in the module are one of the main activities which provide students with various kinds of exercises to promote their reading understanding.
The exercises consisted of reading text based on the text type completed with reading comprehension in various form. In this module, the students could find
matching, multiple choices exercises, and cloze test as the form of reading comprehension of the text.
Various kinds of exercises were selected to accommodate the level of difficulty of the questions so the students will not get bored facing one kind of
exercise for some sections. Multiple choices questions were used to present easy exercises even though it could be adjusted to present the difficult one. Moreover,
matching and cloze test were used in the exercises with medium up to high level of difficulty.
In this section, the students were introduced to some reading skills that might be very useful for them in understanding the reading text. In the module,
there were three skills being introduced to the students. Those were skimming, scanning and identifying topic sentence. The selection of those reading skills was
based on the suggestion from the teacher who really knew the condition and ability of the students. The selected reading skills to be added in the learning
material were the ones having easiest level of difficulty so the students would be easy in understanding it.
The material was presented in an interesting way so that the students could be interested in learning it. Completed with videos and exercises to check on the
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students’ understanding of the material, it is really hoped that the section could contribute more on the students’ understanding. Multiple choices questions and
matching were the selected kind of exercises chosen for this section. This section is actually the form of vocabulary exercises as the follow up
activity after the students reading the list of vocabulary. The activity for this section was mostly in the form of crossword. Crossword puzzle was selected
based on the consideration that it is the most popular word game Dale and O’Rourke, 1971. It could be used for any level and anyone with adjusted
difficulty level. Thus, crossword puzzle could be used as exercises to help students putting the words they have learnt in previous section in the correct
context. By doing so, the students have learnt the word meaning and how to place it in the right context.
The crossword puzzle was placed as the post-reading activity for its versatile function and the difficulty level could be adjusted. It was intentionally
designed as the follow up activity towards the reading text read previously and the vocabulary learnt before. The interesting design of the crossword was hopefully
could attract students’ attention in finishing the course by taking the post-reading activity.