The Development of English Learning Exercises as Supplementary Materials

Abstract

This research aimed to develop the English Learning Exercises (ELE) through ASSURE IDM is to describe the product prototype, to find out the validity of ELE developed through ASSURE IDM, and to find out the practicality of ELE developed through ASSURE IDM. The participants of this research were two experts, two certified English teachers and tenth grade students of SMAN 7 Luwu Timur. The researcher used R &D design according to ASSURE model. The data collection techniques are documentation, questionnaire, and interview. Meanwhile, the data analysis techniques used descriptive qualitative for describing the ELE and quantitative for analyzing the product validation and the product practicality. The results of this research described as follow; (1) the product prototype consisted of design and content. Cover design included colors, pictures, title, students’ degree, the school identity and the designer identity. The content design included color, pictures, chapter identity, learning objectives, definition of the text, social function, schematic structure, linguistic feature, modelling of the text, and exercises. (2) The validity of the content of the developed ELE through ASSURE IDM based on validator was very good and the validity of the design of the developed ELE through ASSURE IDM based on validator was good. (3) Related to the practicality of ELE through ASSURE IDM, both certified teachers and students’ large group thought that the cover from the module was interesting, the pictures, the colours, and the writings were clear, there were an objective of the learning, the display was interesting, the exercises on the module was interesting to be look forward to, the exercises were easy to understand, the exercises were related to the daily life, there were no problems or difficulties to work in every exercises on the module and the module was fulfill the students’ needs. However, the students that have been interviewed thought that the module’s pictures, colours and writing were not clear.