Institutional Repository | Satya Wacana Christian University: Students' Attitudes toward the Use of Authentic Materials in SMPN 2 Ampel

Students’ Attitudes toward the Use of Authentic Materials in SMPN 2 Ampel
Purnomo Adi Sasongko
Abstract
The use of authentic material is now developing rapidly. It becomes more popular and widely
used, because it is believed that using authentic material to teach English offers more benefits
than using non-authentic materials or contrived (textbook). The use of authentic materials are
also controversial instead of offering benefits it also believed that authentic materials had its
disadvantages, This study aimed to investigate and describe the students’ attitude toward the
use of authentic materials in teaching reading in SMPN 2 Ampel. The subject of this study
involved a group of students, which consists of 2 classrooms at same level or same grade that
was eight grade of junior high school, which included 63 students who were taking English
class. This study used a descriptive method. Data were collected by teaching students English
subject inside the classroom activity using authentic materials. Then, data were collected
through questionnaire by some adaptations from Peacock (1997), Rosalina (2006) and Bagus
(2011). After that, writer presented the data by using tables and charts. Then, the data was
analyzed and described. The result of the study generally showed that the students had
positive attitude toward the use of authentic material in reading English subject.
Keywords: Authentic Material

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