Needs Analysis For Designing Esp Materials For Multimedia Department At Vocational High School
Abstract
In this era where technology and global communication were upgrading
around the world, the demand of English mastery is becoming greater. Related to
this condition, Indonesian government is applying the statement of the Act of
Minister of National Education No. 22 year 2006 about the standard content of
primary and secondary education, where English takes part as a compulsory subject
at curriculum. In line with that statement English in Indonesia must be taught from
elementary school to both senior and vocational high school. In addition, English
for vocational high school should put stress on the needs of learners, different with
English for Senior high school that using a General subject English for vocational
school also contains a specific skill that they can use to fulfill the labor demand and
their vocational skills. Multimedia Major as the one who provides a material that
related to the technology nowadays becomes one of popular department at
vocational school. This research was aimed to know what the multimedia major
student’s need related to their major in learning English. The preliminary study
was done by interviewing the English teacher of eleventh grade student at SMK
Islam Bustanul Ulum Jember . it was found that in vocational high school that we
know as a school that focusing to the student’s future job didn’t have any ESP
materials rather than using ESP material the textbook used from the government
are a textbook for EGP learners. So this study was taken to know what the needs of
the student’s in order to developing an ESP materials forstudents in vocational high
school especially in multimedia department. The participant of this study was the
English teacher, the vocational teacher and 35 eleventh grade students of
multimedia major. The researcher gain an information by the teacher using semistructured interview and for the students the researcher using a questionnaire to gain
depth information about the students by using basturkmen’s approach. Based on
two main research data which were need analysis questionnaires and semistructured interview, it is conluded that ESP materials for multimedia department
are significantly needed. On the contrary, the number of desired materials were
limited. It is supported by the statement of the English teacher who argued that
both the government and school only provided EGP for vocational high school
students which is inappropriate. This fact opens an opportunity for the future
researcher to develop the materials demanded. Eventhough, developing apropriate
materials requires several clues. Therefore, the data collected from this research
may store some important information needed by the future researchers which share
the same interest.