DEVELOPING ENGLISH VOCABULARY LEARNING MATERIALS BASED ON NATION’S FOUR STRANDS FOR GRADE EIGHT STUDENTS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

The objective of this research is to develop English vocabulary learning materials based on Nation’s four strands for grade eight students of Junior High School. This study was concerned on how to provide the vocabulary materials for English teaching and learning process. This study was a Research and Development (R&D) study. The subjects of this study were grade seven students of SMP N 2 Srandakan. This study adapted the R&D model proposed by Borg and Gall (1983) and Masuhara (in Tomlinson, 1998). The steps of this study were conducting needs analysis, developing the course grid, writing the vocabulary learning materials, getting expert judgement and evaluating the vocabulary learning materials, revising and writing the final draft of the English vocabulary learning materials based on Nation’s four strands. Two types of questionnaire were used to collect the data. The first questionnaire was made to obtain the data for the needs analysis and the second questionnaire was used to obtain the data about the appropriateness of the book through expert judgement and the respondents. The data of the questionnaire of the appropriateness of the book were analyzed quantitatively through descriptive analysis.The result of the needs analysis showed that the students needed vocabulary learning materials which contained many varied activities, attractive pictures, interesting texts and alluring colours. The product of this study is vocabulary learning materials entitled the English Vocabulary Learning Materials based on Nation’s Four Strands completed with teacher’s guide with the answer key inside of it. This study developed three units of materials based on School-Based Curriculum. Each unit had four main parts: meaning-focused input, meaning-focused output, language-focused learning and fluency development. Considering the students’ learning needs, the input is in the form of short stories and pictures. Based on the analysis of the data from the expert judgement, the mean score of all aspects of the units, in the scale of 1-4, is 3 which was in the range of 3 ≤ x ≤ 3.4 and can be categorized as “Good”. Therefore, it can be concluded that the developed materials have been appropriate for grade eight students of Junior High School