DEVELOPING ENGLISH READING MATERIALS OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERING OF GRADE X AT SMKN 1 PERCUT SEI TUAN

This study concerns on how reading text are developed for vocational school. This study was conducted by using Research and Development (R & D) design through six phases; gathering information and data, analyzing, designing new materials, validating by experts, revising, and final product. The subject of this research was class X SMK N 1 Percut Sei Tuan consisting of 26 students. Instrumentations for collecting data were questionnaire and interview. After analyzing the data, the researcher got the students’ need in learning English in term of vocation that they have. The data were gathered by administering interview and distributing questionnaire to 29 respondents to get the students’ needs. The interview and questionnaire results prove that the students need English reading materials which contain English for Software Engineering major. Thus, developing materials were descriptive text. The developed teaching material were related to the vocation that the students had; it was Software Engineering major. The products have been validated by experts. The average scores are 4,4 from English subject teacher and 4,7 English lecturer. It means the developing materials catagorized as relevant or appropriate for students of Software Engineering major grade X.