DESIGNING ENGLISH READING MATERIALS FOR ALWASHLIYAH ISLAMIC
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL TEBING TINGGI
THESIS
Submitted to the Basic Education Study Program
in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for
the Degree of Magister Pendidikan
By :
SYAWALUDDIN KETAREN
REGISTER NUMBER : 8136182053BASIC EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM POST GRADUATE SCHOOL
i ABSTRCT
Syawaluddin Ketaren. Registration Number 8136182053. Designing English Reading Materials for Alwashliyah Islamic Junior High School Students Tebing Tinggi. A Thesis. Basic Education Study Program, State University of Medan 2015
ii ABSTRAK
Syawaluddin Ketaren. Registration Number 8136182053. Designing English Reading Materials for Alwashliyah Islamic Junior High School Students Tebing Tinggi. A Thesis. Basic Education Study Program, State University of Medan 2015
Penelitian ini berkaitan dengan perancangan materi membaca bahasa inggris untuk kelas delapan MTs Alwashliyah melalui penerapan pendekatan yang berpusat pada otentitas materi. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk merancang materi membaca bahasa inggris yang cocok untuk siswa MTs. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan dengan mengaplikasikan tahapan – tahapan penelitian dan pengembangan . Adapun tahapan – tahapan yang dilakukan adalah (1). menganalisis silabus, materi dan kebutuhan siswa untuk mengangkat masalah, (2) menelaah teori atau prinsip dari bahan bacaan yang efektif,(3) merancang silabus dan bahan materi membaca, (4) memvalidasi bahan bacaan tersebut kepada ahli, (5) memperbaiki materi bacaaan sesuai dengan saran para ahli.untuk menilai kualitas produkdan (6) menghasilkan produk materi ajar membaca untuk siswa MTs. Data penelitian ini berasal dari analisis dokumen yang ada seperti materi, silabus yang ada, angket siswa, dan wawancara guru. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa materi yang ada tidak sesuai dengan kebutuhan siswa MTs.Oleh sebab itu, materi membaca yang baru dirancang melaui pencekatan yang berpusat pada otentitas meteri agar sesuai dengan kebutuahn siswa MTs.
Materi membaca yang baru berasal dari .
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahirabbil Alamin, giving the deepest
sense of gratitude to Allah (SWT) for a life full of happinest . Because of his
loving, the writer is able to finish this thesis as a partial fulfullment of requirement
for Magister Pendidikan in State University of Medan.
Countless individuals have contributed directly and indirectly to the
research and to the completion of this thesis. First, his extremly grateful is
directed to his first and second advisor, Dr. Sri Minda Murni, M.S and Dr.
Mahriyuni, M.Hum for their patient guides, excellent advices and develop
suggests during completing this study.
Secondly, thanks are also directed to Dr.Deny Setiawan, M.Si as the head
of Basic Education Study Program, Prof. Dr. Anita Yus, M.Pd as the secretary of
the Basic Education Study Program for the encouraging to finish this thesis.
Thanks are also addressed to all of the lecturers of Basic Education Study
Program and very especiall for Dr.Anni H.Pulungan, M.Hum and Dr. Zainuddin,
M.Hum as the experts who have given the excellent suggestion on validating this
thesis product.
Thirdly, a special expressin of gratitude is directed to Drs Abdul Holid as
the principal of MTs Alwashliyah for allowing the writer to do the research in his
school. The English teachers, Mahmud, S.Pd and Arwina Lubis, S.Pd who always
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teachers of MTs Alwashliyah for their best coopeartion and warmth and
friendliness.
All time and whole- hearted gratefullnest for his beloved wife, Arrahmi
Husna, S.Pd.I and his two beloved daughters , Khansa Humaira Ketaren and
Kayyisah Mumtazah ketaren as the inspiration on finishing this thesis. This thesis
is dedicated to them.
Overall, the writer hopes this thesis can give a bit contribution to the
language education especially the islamic education.
Medan, Agustus 2015
The writer,
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1.5 The Significances of the Study ... 5
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF LITERATURE ... 7
2.1 Designing Materials ... 7
2.2 Reading Materials ... 11
2.3 Reading Materials in Islamic Junior High School ... 15
2.3.1 Islamic Junior High School ... 15
2.3.2 ERM in Islamic Junoir High School ... 18
2.4 Integrating Islam into the Reading Curriculum ... 18
2.5. Important Factors in Designing New Reading Materials ... 20
2.5.1 Suitability of the Content ... 22
2.5.2 Autenticity ... 23
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2.6 Guidelines for Designing New reading Materials ... 27
2.7 Authentic Material Approach (AMA) ... 29
2.8. Previous Research ... 33
2.9 Conceptual Frameworks ... 34
CHAPTER III THE METHOD OF RESEARCH ... 39
3.1 The Research Design... 39
3.2. Research Setting ... 40
3.3 Data and Data Source ... 41
3.4 Technique of Collecting Data ... 41
3.5 Technique of Designing Materials ... 41
CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDING ... 44
4.1 Data Analysis ... 44
4.1.1 The Existing Reading Materials ... 44
4.2 Materials Design ... 46
4.2.1 Analizing Existing Syllabus, Existing Reading Materials, and The students’ need to identify problem ... 47
4.2.2 Phase II : Reviewing the theory or principle of effective Reading material using AMA ... 54
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ... 66
5.1. Conclusion ... 66
5.2 Suggestion ... 67
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LIST OF TABLES
Table Page
2.1 Indicators in Designing New Reading Materials ... 21
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Appendix Page
A Existing Syllabus ... 74
B Existing Reading Materials ... 75
C Readability of the existing reading materials ... 81
D Interview result... 84
E New Syllabus ... 86
F Readability of the new english reading material ... 87
F New English Reading Materials ... 91
H Expert validation ... 92
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BAB I
INTRODUCTION
1.1 The Background of the Study
In Indonesia English is the first foreign language, It is used in the English
classroom but not in every communication .This condition makes English difficult
for the students because they seldom practice their English, only in the classroom.
As we know that English is an International language which is used by all the
people in the world as means of communications. Because of that, English
becomes very important for every people.Because of its importance, English is
taught from all grades of education level like from the kindergarten until
university.Unfortunately most students at any level of education get difficulty in
reading the text.Many research results (Syatriana, 1998, Hamra,1993 and 1996,
Mardiana, 1993) indicated that the ability of Indonesian students to read English
text was still very low.
There are four language skills in learning English namely reading,
writing, speaking and listening. Reading is one of the four skills that must be
mastered for all the students. Reading is the ability to draw meaning from the
printed page and interpret the information approximately.The process of drawing
information and interpreting information requires the work of the brain.The
purpose of reading activity is to get information from the text we read.
Reading materials play an important role to the English Teaching
learning process. It is one of the very crucial element that has to exist to conduct
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some factors that can promote and also hinder the learning process in the class ,
They are (1) teachers factors, (2) students factors, (3) administrative support, (4)
teaching resources or the materials. The teachers should try to give the relevant
and also interesting materials to promote the students’ learning motivation.
Unfortunately there are so many irrelevant materials that must be learnt by the
students (Wedhaswary, 2002). These materials can make the students become
low motivation to learn. This condition also happens to the grade eight students
of Alwashliyah Islamic Junior High School Tebing Tinggi. The reading materials
that they learn are irrelevant and don’t have any islamic messages in it. That’s
why English reading materials must be designed to get improvement of reading
skill for all the students especially the Islamic Junior High School (MTs)
There are four Islamic Junior High Schools in Tebing Tinggi, one of
them is Alwashliyah Islamic Junior High School .It is located on Jalan Tiga Belas
Desember no 3 Tebing Tinggi as it is the oldest Islamic School.As the result of
the interview with the principal, he said that he realized that English is very
important for all of his students. That’s why he suggests all of his students to take
English courses in the afternoon after school.As the program of that school, the
school has English course that can develop their English ability.Unfortunately,
not all the students can follow the English course .From the view of the English
teacher, he reveled that it is very difficult to teach the students because there are
so many factors happen.The most important factors is that the students lack of
motivation. This happens because there are many some irrelevant materials from
the text book. When they learn the reading text, they are not any islamic stories
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in analyzing the reading materials especially for the narrative text. The narrtaive
text taught by the teacher is taken from the text book which entitles “ English On
Sky 2 for Junior High School. The texts seem irrelevent to the Islamic School
because the existing reading materials do not relate to the Islamic messages. The
irrelevent Reading Materials are Beauty and the Beast, The Deadly Poppy Field
and Cowardly Lion . The texts seem irrelevent to the Islamic School because the
texts are too general and don’t have any Islamic messages in them. Another
problem is that the students are lack of vocabularies. In solving the problem, the
English teacher uses a kind of strategy to increase the students’ vocabulary.
Every week, he gives the students some new vocabularies that have to be
memorized by the students. He gives the time one week for the students to
memorize the new words. After that he will give the students the test about the
vocabulary, that he calls it vocabulary test. By doing this, he tries to incerease the
students vocabulary abilities. Unfortunately, when he was asked about the the
persentage of the students who have good English, he said only fifteen percent of
his students who have good English that can follow his lesson.This condition can
affect their achievement in English. Mr Mahmud also explained that when he
made the formative test, the average score is still far from the Minimum Mastery
Criteria (KKM). The average score that the students got is 63 and the KKM is 72
so Mr Mahmud as the English teacher must work hard to reach the Minimum
Mastery Criteria (KKM).
According to the realities above, we can say that learners’ motivation is
the problem in teaching learning program. The materials that are taught by the
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the materials are too general and are not related to the islamic materials. It can
make the students become low motivation to study. In order to solve the problem,
the relevant reading materials are greatly needed to make the students interest in
learning. The interesting materials can also make the students develop their
vocabulary because when the students read the text, they will find many new
vocabularies in the text. Reading texts provide opportunately to study language
like vocabulary, grammar and it can also help the students to show the way to
construct sentences, paragraph and the text (Hammer, 1998).
With references to the finding, the writer would like to conduct a
research on designing new reading materials for the Islamic junior high school .
In the other words, this research would like to analize the existing syllabus and
also the reading materials. The design of the new reading materials will use
Authentic Materials approach (AMA) . According to Mishan (2005), authentic
Materials Approach is materials – centered and upholds the importance of
materials design not only as a proffesional skill applied by course book writers,
but also as on used by individual teacher in individuals teaching context.
Authentic Materials approach (AMA) is defined as a teaching approach
which focuses on the materials. The teacher gives an authentic text to the students
in teaching learning process.
1.2 The Problem of the Study
Based on the explanation in backround above, it is identified that the
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1. What are the existing English reading materials for students of
Islamic Junior High School ?
2. How is the new design of English reading material ?
3. What is the suitable reading materials for the Islamic Junior high
school ?
1.3 The Objective of the Study
Based on the the previous problem above, the objective of this study are :
1. Evaluating the existing reading comprehension materials for students of
Islamic High School
2.a Investigating English reading comprehension materials which are
suitable with the Islamic High school students
2.b Designing new English reading comprehension materials
3. Validating the new English reading comprehension materials
1.4 The Scope of the Study
This study will be focused on designing suitable English Reading
Material which are relevant with the Islamic Junior High school students
particularly Grade VIII of Alwashliyah Islamic Junior High School.
In addition, the reading text covered in this research is the narrative text
1.5 The Significance of the Study
The findings of this study are expected tobe useful theoretically and
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comprehension materials for The Islamic Junior High School students, especially
Grade VIII of Alwashliyah Islamic Junior High School. The new reading
materials can be used because it has some islamic moral messages that is suitable
for the Islamic school.
Additionally, it is expected to provide a good reference in designing
appropriate English reading comprehension materials for Grade VIII of
Alwashliyah Islamic Junior High School.
The practically, it is expected to inspire the English teachers especially
for the Islamic School teachers to select the suitable English reading material for
their students that can increase the students’ motivation to learn with the
interesting materials. Islamic materials are needed to develop the students’
motivation and the students’ needs as the Islamic school students. Moreover,
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CHAPTER V
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION.
5.1 Conclusion
After analyzing the data, the conclusions were drawn as the following
1. The existing reading materials are too general for the Islamic School
students because there are not any islamic messeges in it. The stories in the
existing reading materials are legend, that will not be used for outside the
class. The messegers in those stories are too general and don’t tend to the
islamic issues.
2. New english reading materials are designed in order to help the students to
gain their needs as the Islamic school students. The new ERM are
designed through AMA in order to find the appropriate materials for the
Islamic school students. In designing the new ERM, there are three
indicators to be used to make the new ERM suitable with the
students’needs
3. The new ERM were validated by two experts by giving them
questionnaire. The questionaire consists of dementions of linguistics
features, processes, contents, and lay out. The experts checked whether the
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5.2Suggestion
1. It is suggested that the english teachers should not give the materials
which are too general and are not suitable with the studemts’ needs
2. It is suggested that the English teacher should teach the students with the
suitable materials for their field.
3. It is suggested that the English teacher should provide the ERM based on
related principles, theories, or criteria of effective instructional that have
been studied.
4. It is suggestion for the English teacher to use AMA principles as an
teaching approach in order to develop suitable ERM for the students
.
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