DEVELOPING TASK-BASED SPEAKING MATERIALS FOR SECRETARY STUDENTS

Abstract

English becomes a global language since million people in the world use English as the main language for communication in educational institutions and occupational purposes. In education, English serves as one of the subjects which should be taught to the students starting from junior high school to university. In Indonesia, vocational high schools are divided into several popular majors such as as economics, tourism, secretary, engineering, technology, tourism and fashion industry. A vocational high school provides a specific qualification to acces the labor market. SMKN 1 Probolinggo is one of schools that has secretary major which focuses on preparing the secretary students to be able to apply their skill competence in global industry. This research was intended to develop task-based speaking materials for secretary students of SMKN 1 Probolinggo with the aim to provide speaking materials that will be suitable with the students’ work field. The research steps in designing the material were: (1) identify instructional goal, (2) conduct instructional analysis, (3) analyze learners and context, (4) write performance objective, (5) develop instructional strategy, (6) developing instructional materials (7) design and conduct the formative evaluation of instruction. From the steps, the product of the research appeared to have two topics provided such as making phone calls and reservation hotel. The total of the task were 8 tasks. Each tasks contain some activities could encourage the students to speak and were interesting enough to motivate the students’ learning. vi In this research, the speaking materials were evaluated by the validators. There are two validators, they are an English teacher of SMKN 1 Probolinggo and a lecturer of English Education Program Jember University. The validators shown a positive attitude towards the product of the research and they both agreed that the speaking materials were suitable for Secretary students of SMKN 1 Probolinggo and could be applied in the teaching and learning process.