DEVELOPING ENGLISH READING TEXT MATERIALS THROUGH CONTENT-BASED INSTRUCTION (CBI) FOR STUDENTS OF MTs
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- The objective of this study was to develop the suitable English reading text materials for students of MTs. It was found that English reading text materials provided in the students’ textbook were not suitable to the needs and relevant to the MTs students. This research was conducted based on educational research and development (R & D) through Content-Based Instruction (CBI) approach. The subject of this study was grade eight students of MTs at MTs Insan Cita. The steps of this study were: collecting and analyzing data, writing syllabus, Developing new reading materials, and validating. The instruments to collect the data were observation and questionnaire which were given to the students. The results showed the students needed English reading text materials which were suitable to them. English reading text developed was 4 texts accompanied by building vocabularies and reading comprehension (Barrett Taxonomy). These development of English reading text materials were validated by two experts and the result were considered as suitable. The mean score of all aspects of the developed materials was 4.35 and was categorised as “Very Good”.