THE STUDENTS’ NEEDS ANALYSIS OF THE SPEAKING MATERIALS IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS FOR THE TENTH-GRADE STUDENTS AT HOTEL ACCOMMODATION DEPARTMENT IN SMKN 1 BATU
| Main Author: | Lufiana, Arum |
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| Format: | Thesis NonPeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2018
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.umm.ac.id/38697/1/NASKAH..pdf http://eprints.umm.ac.id/38697/ |
Daftar Isi:
- This research aims at describing the tenth-grade students' needs for speaking materials in English textbooks, especially in Hotel Accommodation Department at SMKN 1 Batu. There are three kinds of problems that were raised up in this research including students’ target needs, students’ learning needs, and the speaking materials in English textbooks which are relevant with the needs of students at Hotel Accommodation Department. This research used the descriptive qualitative method because it was intended to describe the students’ target and learning needs and to find out speaking materials in English textbooks which were related to students’ needs. This research was conducted at SMKN 1 Batu. The first finding of this study is the speaking target needs of students at Hotel Accommodation Department which includes: (1) necessities (students needed materials for their future career in the hotel and for national exam purpose). (2) lacks (students faced difficulties in learning vocabulary, pronunciation, and feel anxious when speaking English because of the sentence structure). (3) wants (students needed speaking materials which were related to hospitality including short text, vocabularies, articles under hotel topic, visual text, and short dialogues about daily activities in the hotel). Another finding is the students’ learning needs which were: (1) electronic media such as the internet, television, and smartphone and audiovisual media like video, film, song, powerpoint, and audio recording for learning input. (2) speaking learning tasks in the classroom such as completing a dialogue, answering questions based on the speaking texts, analyzing and translate meaning vocabulary, filling the blanks and utterance, and repeating teachers’ pronunciation as learning procedures. (3) speaking activities or tasks to do in pairs, in a small group, or individually as the learning setting. (4) teachers as knowledge provider, controller, facilitator, motivator, and role model in speaking English in the class. (5) active participation during teaching and learning activity. Lastly, the speaking materials which were relevant to the students' needs were provided by three English textbooks namely; Mandiri Practice, Get along English, and Bahasa Inggris revision 2017. Furthermore, the speaking materials in English for International Tourism was mostly recommended as the primary basic materials, along with some exercises and activities related to students needs in target situations.