DEVELOPING INTERACTIVE LEARNING MULTIMEDIA FOR LISTENING MATERIALS OF THE “WHEN ENGLISH RINGS A BELL FOR GRADE VIII STUDENTS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS (SMP/MTS)” TEXTBOOK

The objectives of this research were: (1) to describe the needs of Grade VIII students of junior high schools in terms of listening teaching and learning context, (2) to describe the characteristics of appropriate interactive learning multimedia that can be used to support the listening teaching and learning process of Grade VIII students of junior high schools, and (3) to develop the appropriate interactive learning multimedia for listening materials of the “When English Rings a Bell for Grade VIII students of junior high schools (SMP/MTS)” textbook. This research and development study followed the ADDIE design model proposed by Taylor (2004) with some modifications. The steps were analyzing students’ needs and the materials, designing a course grid, a flowchart, and a story board, developing the first draft of the interactive learning multimedia, evaluating the first draft by an expert and revising it based on the feedback obtained from the evaluation. The subjects were Grade VIII students of SMP Negeri 6 Yogyakarta. The instruments to collect the data were the needs analysis questionnaire and the expert judgment rating scale. The data from the needs analysis were analyzed quantitatively using frequency and percentage and the quantitative data obtained from the expert judgment were analyzed through descriptive statistics. Based on the results, the students preferred that the listening materials presented in the interactive learning multimedia were developed richer than the adapted textbook. The background color that the students preferred was blue. This study developed interactive learning multimedia from the first three units of the textbook. The research findings showed that the developed interactive learning multimedia was appropriate. The mean scores for content and design aspects were 3.8 and 4.0, which were very good. The mean score for both content and design aspects was 3.9, which was very good