Developing English Reading Materials for The Eleventh Grade Students of Software Engineering Program at SMKN 9 Medan

The objective of this study was to develop English reading materials based on the
students of Software Engineering needs for the eleventh grade students at SMKN 9
Medan. This study was conducted by using Research and Development design through
six stages; gathering data and information, need analysis, designing materials,
validating, revising (final product). The subject of the study was grade eleventh of
SMKN 9 Medan. The data were gathered by conducting interview to English teacher
and distributting questionnaire to XI RPL 3 consists of 24 students to get the students’
need. To collect the data of the research, conducting interview to English teacher and
two types of questionnaires were used as the instruments. The first was the needs
analysis questionnaire which was made to obtain the data about the students’ target and
learning needs and the second was the expert judgment questionnaire which was made
to obtain the data about the appropriateness of the materials developed. The developed
reading materials were validated by two experts which are the average scores for the
analytical exposition material (4.65 and 4.7) and for the explanation text (4.65 and 4.6)
show that the reading materials are valid and suitable to use for the eleventh grade
students of software engineering program. Based on the results of the expert judgment,
the developed materials were considered appropriate, which was very good.