DEVELOPING SPEAKING MATERIALS BASED ON LOCAL CULTURE FOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

This study focuses on the development of speaking materials based on local
culture for eleventh grade student. The study’s purpose is to create a speaking
materials that suitable with the students’ needs. Especially, it designed with
integrate aspects of the local Javanese and Mandailing cultures to achieve the
educational requirement of the curriculum. The data for this research were
gathered from various sources such as existing speaking materials, syllabus,
interviews with the English teacher, teaching and learning process observation
and questionnaire that administered to eleventh grade students at SMAS Amir
Hamzah Medan, with 20 total participants. Three data collection techniques are
observation, interview and questionnaire. The data collections were employed to
comprehend students’ need and preferences. The needs analysis conducted on
February 2024 emphasized the materials appropriate for eleventh grade students.
The analysis result showed that students need to have a develop speaking
materials to cater the needs to improve their speaking English learning process, in
pronunciation and vocabulary mastery. The develop material went to a validation
by two experts with 95% result score, indicating the high quality and suitable used
as the speaking materials in the class. As the result, this research demonstrated the
feasibility and the effectiveness of integrating local culture into English speaking
materials, increase the improvement of the learning process and offer a valuable
resource into the speaking materials for senior high school students.