Abstract

This research is an analysis of the needs of students and lecturers to determine the basis to be used in developing a product in the form of teaching essays in English. Analysis of this need is a step or procedure that must be done in research and development. This research was conducted at an English Education Program at STKIP Kusuma Negara Jakarta. One of the motivation of researcher to conduct this research is the existence of information on the ability of most students in writing English essays that are still below the average and one reason is because the English essay writing material used is less interesting and difficult to understand, so students not interested in studying thoroughly. With this, researcher was inspired to develop teaching material models for writing essays in English. One of the procedures carried out in developing the teaching material is needs analysis. Based on the needs analysis, the researcher found the characteristics of teaching materials in writing English essays needed by students and lecturers, these characteristics are almost similar to the characteristics of brainwriting learning strategies. Thus a brainwriting strategy will be integrated into the preparation of English essay writing teaching material.

Highlights

  • The concept of teaching material that is understood by most people is in the form of textbooks or book used for training or courses that directly refer to a material

  • Questionnaire needs for lecturers consisting of a number of valid questions 40 statement questions consisting of items statement that includes needs, lack and desire of teaching material to write essays in English

  • Giving questionnaires to lecturers is the same as the questionnaire given to students, namely by using a Likert scale, which consists of four choices namely strongly agree (SS) with a value of 4, agree (S) with a value of 3, disagree (TS) with a value of 2, and strongly disagree (STS) with a value of 1 if the higher the number obtained by the lecturer in filling out the questionnaire, the higher the category of need for teaching material in writing essays in English the value of the criteria is summed

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Introduction

The concept of teaching material that is understood by most people is in the form of textbooks or book used for training or courses that directly refer to a material. The concept is is a set of teaching material that refers to anything that is used by the teacher or lecturer in the learning process. It can be concluded that the teaching material is anything in any form that is used by the teacher or lecturer in the learning process which aims to improve student knowledge. Teaching material leads to everything that is used by lecturers and students to facilitate language learning to improve language knowledge and experience, for example essay writing skills. While the development of teaching material is what is done by writers, instructors or students to provide input sources of various experiences designed to improve language learning (Islam, 2014)

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