Abstract

Linguistics Description of English is a new subject in the curriculum of English Education Study Program in the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education in Jambi University. Hence, the material for this subject is not yet available. Therefore, this research aims at developing a prototype of teaching materials for Linguistics Description of English course. By designing the prototype of teaching materials for this course, the researchers expected that lecturers who will teach this subject will not find difficulties in teaching this course. Besides, the use of materials which have been designed based on students’ need and linguistic lecturers’ discussion is anticipated to be able to encourage students to be more active in teaching and learning process. Thus, the choice of the topics is suited to the characteristics of the students and drew from the result of the need analysis questionnaire and forum group discussion (FGD) with the lecturers. This research utilized research and development design, based on the theory developed by Borg and Gall (1983). The result of the research is the prototype of the teaching materials for Linguistics Description of English course.

Highlights

  • The English Education Study Program in the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Jambi is one of the study programs that is highly favored by high school graduates

  • Linguistics Description of English is a new subject in the curriculum of English Education Study Program in the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education in Jambi University

  • This research aims at developing the prototype of a teaching material prototype for Linguistics Description of English course (LDoE)

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Introduction

The English Education Study Program in the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Jambi is one of the study programs that is highly favored by high school graduates. This statement can be justified by a large number of students who wanted to enroll in this study program every year. During the last five years, there have been about one thousand senior high school graduates apply for this program. This information can be found in the Academic Information System of Universitas Jambi (www.siakad.unja.ac.id). The English Education Study Program always revises its curriculum within a few years to respond to the demands of the students when they graduate later

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