DEVELOPING ESP TEACHING MATERIALS FOR THE STUDENTS OF THE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING BASED ON PBL AT THE AL-WASHLIYAH TELADAN VOCATIONAL SCHOOL

This study deals with the development of English Reading Materials of vocational school, Al-Washliyah Teladan Medan, majoring Software Engineering. The objectives of this study are to: 1) find out language skill and materials are needed by the students of Software Engineering, 2) develop the English materials for the majoring in software engineering students at the vocational high school. Develop Reading materials relevant to the needs of software engineering students, especially grade XII. This study was conducted by Educational Research and Development R&D (Borg & Gall, 1989). The data of this research are from existing documents, the result of interview with teacher and student.
The results of the research convey that the existing reading materials were mostly irrelevant because the title and content of the material is not appropriate and is not required for the students majoring in software engineering, then the existing materials there is also relevant but hard to comprehend because of some problems, namely: 1) some of the sentences were written in relative clause, 2) the terminologies and vocabularies that used in the reading materials were new vocabularies and special words terminology for software engineering. Therefore, the new English reading materials and syllabus were developed based on the students need related to the workplace. The materials and syllabus were developed from the existing materials from teacher. The developing materials then validated by two experts. They agreed that new developing materials and syllabus are relevant and easy to comprehend for the students of software engineering for grade XII. In conclusion, the developing Reading materials were developed based on the experts suggestion. Therefore, it is suggested to the English teacher to provide the materials based on the students need.