DEVELOPING ENGLISH READING TEXT MATERIALS THROUGH CONTENT-BASED INSTRUCTION (CBI) FOR STUDENTS OF MTs

The objective of this study was to develop the suitable English reading text
materials for students of MTs. It was found that English reading text materials
provided in the students’ textbook were not suitable to the needs and relevant to
the MTs students. This research was conducted based on educational research and
development (R & D) through Content-Based Instruction (CBI) approach. The
subject of this study was grade eight students of MTs at MTs Insan Cita. The steps
of this study were: collecting and analyzing data, writing syllabus, Developing
new reading materials, and validating. The instruments to collect the data were
observation and questionnaire which were given to the students. The results
showed the students needed English reading text materials which were suitable to
them. English reading text developed was 4 texts accompanied by building
vocabularies and reading comprehension (Barrett Taxonomy). These development
of English reading text materials were validated by two experts and the result
were considered as suitable. The mean score of all aspects of the developed
materials was 4.35 and was categorised as “Very Good”.