Abstract
ESL classroom implements the use of instructional materials to support instruction in classroom. Instructional material is defined as anything which is deliberately used to increase the learners’ knowledge and/or experience of the language (Tomlinson, 2011). Textbook, video, newspaper can be used as materials in the English instruction. This research aims to evaluate the instructional material for Peer Assisted Learning Program (PALP) based on Mukundan’s categorization in the form of English Language Teaching Textbook Evaluation Checklist (ELT-TEC) (2013) and to find whether the material is useful or not the material for PALP. Peer Assisted Learning Program (PALP) is a peer tutoring program initiated by the English Education Department to encourage the students to speak English fluently and to perform better. The data of this descriptive quantitative research are taken from the instructional material for PALP and these are classified based on the categorization checklist of Mukundan’s English Language Teaching Textbook Evaluation Checklist (ELT-TEC). The total score will be the consideration of the materials’ usefulness. Based on the analysis, it is found that the instructional material for PALP is on the moderate usefulness. This finding can give a significant contribution the PALP itself.
Highlights
Peer Assisted Learning Program (PALP) is a cross level peer tutoring in one institution initiated by the English Education Study Program of Ahmad Dahlan University Yogyakarta in 2015
The instructional materials of PALP are in the form of textbooks and these are provided in three series; General English for semester one, Speaking for semester two and Integrated English for semester three students
Textbook evaluation is considered as a very substantial thing because the information collected can be used in making decisions about the future of the textbooks (Mukundan, 2013)
Summary
Peer Assisted Learning Program (PALP) is a cross level peer tutoring in one institution initiated by the English Education Study Program of Ahmad Dahlan University Yogyakarta in 2015. This is a compulsory program for the first, second and the third semester students. Tutors use the textbook in their instructional process. The problems commonly found by the tutors in using the books are the instruction on the book are sometimes unclear, some topics in the discussions are not up-to-date and these are not interesting for the tutees and the materials in some parts of the books do not represent the objective in the syllabus
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