DEVELOPING READING MATERIAL THROUGH LOCAL BASED NEEDS AT SDN 100107 LOBULAYAN SOUTH TAPANULI, NORTH SUMATERA

Nowadays, the developing and appreciating material based on students local based
needs is very attractive. The purpose of this study are: 1) To find out the existing
English reading materials used for the students of sixth grade at SDN 100107
Lobulayan in South Tapanuli regency; 2) To find out English reading material are
needed by the students of sixth grade at SDN 100107 Lobulayan in South
Tapanuli regency; 3) To develop the students’ English reading materials through
local based need for students of sixth grade at SDN 100107 Lobulayan in South
Tapanuli regency. This study is employed by implementing Research and
Development design by Borg and Gall, 2003 but in implementing the model is
simplified and adapted to Dirgeyasa (2011) become four steps: 1) evaluation and
need analysis, 2) course design, 3) validating material, 4) revision and final
product. The target of clients of this research was 25 correspondents which
consisted of 21 students of SDN 100107 Lobulayan, 1 English teacher, 2 lecturers
and 1 stakeholder is taken by using random sampling technique. The data was
collected by questionnaire, documentation, and interview. The result of the study
showed that the existing reading material used was less relevant with the needs of
students of SDN 100107 Lobulayan in terms of topics, basic competences,
assessment, and learning activities. After gaining the data from the evaluation and
need analysis, it was found that the relevant reading material needed by the
students of SDN 100107 Lobulayan are eight materials which related to their
local based needs developed in reading text namely local vegetables names, local
foods, people in my family, school object, traditional clothes, tourism, local fruits,
and country. Last, based on the expert’s judgment result, the score was 91.2%
which belonged to excellent category based on Dirgeyasa (2011), since the range
is 81-100. It means that the development materials was categorized excellent and
relevant or appropriate for the sixth grade students of elementary school