Developing Supplementary Reading Material for “When English Rings A Bell” for Eight Grade of SMP Muhammadiyah 7 Yogyakarta

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to describe how reading materials based on the 2013 Curriculum for grade VIII students of Junior High School was developed and to describe the efficacy of the supplementary reading English material VIII students of Junior High School. This research belongs to Educational Research and Development (R&D) using a simplified six steps of Borg and Gall’s model (1983). The six steps are as follows. (1) Research and information collecting was conducted by performing document analysis, class observation, interview, product testing, as well as experts’ judgments, (2) Planning and drafting were conducted following Nation and McCalister (2010), (3) Draft revision by experts, (4) Field testing was conducted in the eight grade of SMP Muhammadiyah 7 Yogyakarta, (5) Revision, and (6) Final product. The findings shows that (1) learning materials that were developed in this research fulfilled the criteria of R&D model. The result of this product development was beneficial, useful and appropriate to be used for Junior High School students especially in SMP Muhammadiyah 7 Yogyakarta. (2) the efficacy of the supplementary reading materials could be seen from the students’ participating in the teaching learning process. It showed that the students were active and fun in joining the class. It can be said that the supplementary reading could help students to achieve the students’ need, to improve vocabularies, and to improve their pronunciation. Furthermore, the reading materials as the product of this study provide additional learning resources for students.