DEVELOPING ENGLISH SPEAKING MATERIAL THROUGH CONTEXTUAL TEACHING AND LEARNING FOR BEAUTY STUDY PROGRAM

The purpose of this study are; 1) to examine the existing speaking materials
used today by the students of Beauty study program; 2) to find out the
speaking materials needed by the students of Beauty study program; 3) to
develop the speaking materials through Contextual Teaching and Learning
for Beauty study program. 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 Dirgayasa (2011)
become four steps: 1) Evaluation and need analysis, 2) developing new
material, 3) validating material, 4) final revision. The target clients of this
research was 31 correspondents which consisted of 25 students of Beauty
Study program, 2 English teachers, 2 lecturers, and 2 stakeholders. The data
was collected by questionnaire, documentation and interview. The result of
this study showed that the existing speaking material used was not relevant
with the needs of students of Beauty study program in terms of topics, basic
competences, assessments, and learning activities. After gaining the data
from the evaluation and need analysis, it was found that the relevant
speaking material needed by the students of Beauty study program are the
material which related to their work field and contains various activities.
The speaking material developed through Contextual Teaching and
Learning is realized into five sections namely 1) Screening; 2) Starter; 3)
React; 4) Reflection; and 5) Word Bank.