DEVELOPING ESP WRITING MATERIALS BASED ON STUDENTS CENTERED LEARNING FOR THE STUDENTS OF NUTRITION POLYTECHNIC KEMENKES MEDAN AT LUBUK PAKAM

This study deals with the design of English writing materials for the students of nutrition polythenic through students centered learning approach. The objective of this study is to develop English writing materials which are relevant to the needs of nutrition students in Nutrition Polytechnic Kemenkes Medan at Lubuk Pakam. This study was conducted by applying the three phasess of educational research and development (R&D). They are evaluating the existing English writing materials and assessing the students, needs, developing English writing materials, and validating the new English writing materials to the experts. The data of this research are from students’ questionnaire, documents and interviews of students, lecturer and stakeholders. The result of this study shows that the existing English writing materials are not relevant to the nutrtion students’ needs. Therefore, new English writing materials through students centered learning approach to meet the nutrition polytechnic students’ needs. The new materials developed are from Source : http://sportsmedicine.about.com/od/sportsnutrition/a/Carbohydrates.htm, ‘carbohydrates’, http://www.naturodoc.com/library/nutrition/fatcontent.htm ‘determining fat content’: http://www.babycentre.co.uk/a3561/diet-for-a-healthy-pregnancy, ‘healthy diets for pregnants mother, http:/ www.edugains.ca/resourcesLIT/LearningMaterials/, ‘recipe componen’. in order to get the authentic materials. The new English writing materials were validated by two experts. They agreed that the new materials are relevant to the needs of nutrition students. In conclusion, the new writing English materials developed are relevan to the needs of nutrition students. Therefore, it is suggested to the English lecturere to develop writing materials which are relevant to the students needs.