Developing Audiovisual Media to Support the Teaching of Conversation for Second Semester of Tenth Grade Students in SMK PGRI 1 Tulungagung

Keywords: Audiovisual Media, Conversation, Development, 10th grade of SMK English is the one of the main subject for students, should have the selection media well. The good instructional media is an interesting media because it can attrack students attention and motivation to learn English, and catch the materials that will be delivered by the teacher. SMK PGRI Tulungagung has the language laboratory, but this school can not maximize the use of it. The teacher faces the problem to deliver the speaking materials especially in conversation. The 10th grade students of SMK PGRI 1 Tulungagung get the difficulty to pronounce the sentence(s), and make a meaningfull dialogue. So that, the researcher develops the audiovisual media. The objectives of this developing media is help the teacher to teach English. Hopefully, the students can make the meaningfull conversation after watching this media. So that, both teacher and the students can solve their problem in delivering and learning English in accociated with making the conversation. This development using Sadiman’s Model development which has nine steps of development. They are (1) need analysis, 2) learning objectives formulation, (3) developing material, (4) developing evaluation tool, (5) scenario formulation, (6) developing media, (7) developing utilization guide, (8), validation, (9) revision, and the product is ready to use. The validation result of this conversation media for 10th grade students in SMK PGRI 1 TULUNGAGUNG using three kinds of validation. They are media expert’s validation, material expert’s validation, and students’ validation. From the three steps of validation, it can be drawn the conclusion that: (a) media expert’s validation stated that this media is valid since she gives 88,75% for validation result, (b) material expert’s validation states that this material in this media is valid since he givs 88,75% for validation result, (c) students state that this media is valid since they give 88,60% for validation result. For the result of pre and post test, there is a significance progress around 63, 94%. From the result of those validation, it can be concluded that this conversation media is valid and can be used as English instructional media for 10th grade students of vocational high school in second semester, in term of delivering the materials about (1) describing present activities, (2) understanding memo, simple menus, time schedule, and sign, (3) understanding the sentence(s) in correct pattern, (4) telling the simple invitation. In this case, the teacher’s role is very important to explain more about the materials shown in the media, so that it can create the effective of instructional activities and achieves the learning objectives