Development of speaking material in english for nursing

Abstract

Learning material is important for students, unfortunately finding the appropriate material is not easy. One of the cause is the online and commercial materials cannot cover the students need and curriculum. This research aims to develop the appropriate speaking materials for nursing students. This study was Research and Development (RND). The population and sample was 105 nursing students that divided into two groups, experimental and control group. The experimental group used the speaking material developed, and the control group used the commercial material. The data come from pre-test, post-test, questionnaire and observation. The findings are there are four aspects in five units that should be developed, such as topic, language, organization, design, and exercise. Moreover, the students speaking also analyzed based on fluency, coherence, grammatical, accuracy and pronunciation. The result of calculation in the experimental group has the significant value with p value <0,05 and in the control group, the p value is > 0,05. Therefore, it can be concluded that 1) Based on the effectiveness analysis of five units, the low category from 4% become 0% and the high category from 71% become 87%. 2) Based on the judges, the judges strongly agree the speaking material that has been developed strongly appropriate for the students. It can be seen from the score from English lecturer is 4,65, from expert judges is 4,39 and from stakeholder is 4,57. 5) There is a significant improvement after using speaking material after developed. Keywords: speaking material, learning material, English for Nursing.