DEVELOPING ENGLISH INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR YEAR X STUDENTS OF MUSIC STUDY PROGRAM

The objectives of this research were 1) to describe the target and learning needs of year X students of Music Study Program, 2) to develop appropriate English instructional materials for year X students of Music Study Program based on the Curriculum 2013. This research was a Research and Development (R & D) study. The procedure of the research followed the materials development process proposed by Jolly and Bolitho (1998) with some adaptations in order to make the research feasible within the setting of this research. The procedure of the research consists of five steps: 1) identification of needs, 2) planning,3) production of the materials, 4) evaluation, 5) revision. There were two types of data collection instruments used in this research: questionnaires and interview guide. The questionnaireswere used to collect data for the needs analysis and for the materials evaluation. The interview guidewas also used to conduct needs analysis by interviewing an English teacher in SMK N 2 Kasihan, Bantul, Yogyakarta. There were two types of data collected in this research: 1) quantitative data from the needs analysis and expert judgment questionnaires, 2) qualitative data from the interview. The quantitative data were analyzed quantitatively while the qualitative data were analyzed qualitatively. The developed materials are three units. Each unit of the materials has different number of tasks but they have the same unit design that consists of four parts: introduction, main lesson, reinforcement, and fun space. The materials were then evaluated in terms of the appropriateness of the content, language, presentation, and layout. The results of the materials evaluation showed that the materials fall into the “good” category as the mean value of all aspects of the developed materials is 3.14 which is in range of “good” category that is 2.5 < x < 3.24