Developing Task – Based Speaking Materials for Secretary Students at the Indonesian Vocational school

Abstract

The aim of this research was to develop task-based speaking materials for vocational high schools. The design of this study was categorized as educational research and development. The research object was secretary students of SMKN 1 Probolinggo. Interview and questionnaire were used to get the data, and it was found out that (87,09%) the students agreed to choose topic which was related to making phone calls and (12,90%) chose topic which was related to making reservation hotel. This research only focused on two topics, making phone calls and hotel reservation. The total of the task were 8 tasks. Most of the students (80,64%) answered that they agreed if the task can help them to increase their speaking skill. Then, there were two validation questionnaires for two validators, and the result showed that both validators approved that the content of the task was suitable for the students secretary major.