Designing Supplementary Speaking Materials For English Extracurricular Program In Junior High School Kartika IV-8 Malang
Abstract
The present study aims to design speaking supplementary materials for an
English extracurricular program in Junior High School Kartika IV-8 Malang. The SMP
KARTIKA IV-8 Malang principal established an English Extracurricular program to
prepare the students following the English competition. It is also conducted to enhance
the students’ speaking skills and the students’ self-confidence to speak. However, the
textbook is unavailable for this extracurricular class. It becomes the problem faced for
both the teacher and the students in the teaching and learning process.
This present study used Research and Development (R&D) method adopted from
Borg & Gall (2003). Therefore, some procedures involved in this study needed analysis,
Designing syllabus and English extracurricular product, validating the product to the
experts, Doing revision, trying out the product, and final product.
This research’s final product is an English speaking book entitled “Let’s Practice
English! speaking skill”. The textbook focuses on enhancing the students’ speaking skills
and preparing the students to join English competitions. This instructional product is
developed based on the students’ needs and interests. Specifically, this product is
completed with several tips and tricks in following the English competition. Besides,
some dialogues and English games are available to help the students improve their
speaking. Moreover, mini vocabulary is also provided for the students in each unit to
enrich the students’ vocabulary and help the students understand the content.
Last, as a suggestion to the future researcher to carry out similar studies by
developing other skills such as reading and writing. In English competition, those two
skills are important to be mastered since the students need to read a text of storytelling or
speech or write it by them. Hence, this textbook will be more complete by developing
other skills.