DEVELOPING ENGLISH READING TEXT MATERIALS FOR TENTH GRADE OF CULINARY STUDENTS IN SMKN 8 MEDAN

This study is aimed to develop English reading materials about describing culinary place, retelling culinary experience and telling about folktale based on students’ needs of Culinary. This study was conducted by using Research and Development (R&D). The subject of this research was grade X students of Culinary of SMKN 8 Medan consisting of 33 students. The language skill was concerned on reading, particularly in descriptive text, recount text, and narrative text. Qualitative data consist of syllabus and existing reading materials. Instrumentation for collecting the data was existing materials, questionnaire and interview. After analyzing the data, the writer got the students’ need in learning English in term of vocation that they have trough questionnaire and interview. After the students’ need had analyzed, the new reading materials was developed. The developed reading materials were related to the vocation that the students’ had; it was culinary. The development of materials followed three stages: those were evaluation and need analysis, developing materials, and materials validation. Based on the result of experts’ validation, the developing English reading materials was equipped with adding exercise in each chapter, made the vocabularies specific and adding more pictures that relate to the topic. The developed reading materials was validated by an English teacher and English lecturer with the mean score is 88, which is categorized as “Good” reading materials.