DEVELOPING ENGLISH READING MATERIALS OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AND PROCEDURE TEXT FOR GRADE XI OF TOURISM VOCATIONAL IMELDA MEDAN

The objective of this study is to develop suitable descriptive text and procedure text materials for reading skill, for Tourism program students. It was found that descriptive text and procedure text materials provided in the students’ textbook were not appropriate to the needs and interests of Beauty program students. This research was conducted based on educational research and development (R&D) through six steps, namely: gathering data, analyzing data, developing materials, validating materials, revising materials and final product. There some instruments that were applied in this research namely questionnaire and interview .The subject of this study was Grade XI of Tourism program. Based on the needs analysis
conducted there were 2 descriptive text and 2 procedure texts related to Tourism program developed. In descriptive text entitled: Borobudur Temple and Bandung Zoo and in
procedure text entitled: How to Make Brownies and How to Make Pancake. The researcher developed the text by selecting and adapting relevant descriptive text and procedure texts related to Tourism program from internet and book as the sources. Then, the selected texts
were adapted based on the principles of materials development in order to present well organized suitable descriptive text and procedure text materials. These developed descriptive text and procedure text materials had been validated by two experts and the average score
gotten is 4.08. It is categorized “Good” since the mean is within the interval 3.40 < ̅ ≤ 4.19. It means that the developed descriptive text and procedure text materials for reading skill are appropriate for the eleventh grade students of Tourism program.