Abstract
Teaching English as a foreign language in higher education becomes more challenging from year to year. Based on the learner and learning needs, nowadays, English should be taught in relation to the other fields of the study. The phenomena require a certain ‘scenario’ to support the students’ English mastery. In accordance to the condition, English Education Department of Universitas Ahmad Dahlan has a program to help the students improving their English skills called Peer-Assisted Learning Program PALP. As an official program in the department, PALP is managed professionally by the boards. However, developing the appropriate materials for the program still becomes one big question to everyone dealing with the program, especially the boards. It is a really challenging work to develop such informative and practical materials for the students joining the program. Thus, in this paper, the writer will discuss several theories as the basis in developing the materials for PALP. It will cover the information about PALP, learner needs, learning needs, criteria of good materials, material development, and materials evaluation/assessment.
Highlights
In this era, every higher education institution, including Universitas Ahmad Dahlan (UAD) has its own strategy to improve the students‟ knowledge and skills
In English Education Department of UAD (PBI UAD), the lecturers try to formulate a certain program aiming at improving the students‟ English skills
Pee-Assisted Learning Program (PALP) is a special program created by the lecturers of PBI UAD aiming to enable the students to learn and improve their English skills „outside‟ the classrooms
Summary
Every higher education institution, including Universitas Ahmad Dahlan (UAD) has its own strategy to improve the students‟ knowledge and skills. PALP is a special program created by the lecturers of PBI UAD aiming to enable the students to learn and improve their English skills „outside‟ the classrooms. In this program, there will be mentees from the lower semester and mentors from the higher semester. The key concept of conducting this program is the fact that the students of PBI UAD are projected to be the English educator. They need the „real‟ experience as an educator. The boards discuss the result and design the instructional materials based on the needs analysis result
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