DEVELOPING SUPPLEMENTARY WRITING MATERIALS FOR THE
SEVENTH-GRADE STUDENTS AT MTSN MODEL DARUSSALAM
MARTAPURA
Oleh
RIDHANI FIZI, M.Pd
Abstract
The objective of the study is to develop supplementary writing materials for seventh-
grade students of junior high school. It based on the finding taken from the students’ needs of the
seventh-grade students at MTsN Model Martapura, It is found that the problem faced by the
students is the low ability to write in English. Moreover, the writing materials in the existing
book used by the school are too limited in scope of writing. Therefore, this study was conducted
for the purpose of developing the supplementary materials for writing. The design of the
development is research and development with the adaption of the development proposed by
Borg and Gall (1983). The procedures employed in this study were need analysis, stating
instructional goals, developing instructional material, expert validation, try-out and final product.
In the expert validation and try out, checklist and field notes were used as the instrument to
record the feedback for revision. The development materials which consist of five units contain
the standard competence and basic competence. The arrangement of the instructional materials is
adapted from the stages of teaching – learning cycles by Feez in Hyland (2003:138) covering
building knowledge of the field (BKOF), modeling of the field ( MOT), join construction of the
text (JCOT), and independent construction of the text (ICOT) to suit the needs of the individual
learners. Based on the result of identification of the checklist after try-out, the data were
generally applicable for the seventh- grade. The materials in each unit is relevant to the objective
of the lesson, the design of the materials is interesting because the pictures are full color, the
instructions of the materials are understandable, the materials covered the students’ need on
functional texts, the level of difficulty of the language is appropriate to use their level. Based on
the result of the data analysis, it can be concluded that the developed materials are categorized
good and can be used as supplementary writing materials for the seventh grade students of
MTsN Model Martapura.
Keywords: Supplementary Materials, Writing Ability, Functional Text
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