Abstract
The development of innovative chemistry learning material for bilingual Senior High School (SHS) students in Indonesia is explained. The study is aimed to obtain an innovative chemistry learning material based on national curriculum in Indonesia to be used as a learning media in the teaching and learning activities. The learning material is developed by enhancing the chemistry topics to meet the requirement of a national curriculum followed by integration of laboratory experiments, learning media, and contextual application of the relevant chemistry topics. The material is then designed in printed and electronic bases. The performance of developed chemistry material is standardized to meet good quality learning material for class purposes. The results showed that the performance of developed chemistry materials is categorized as very good. The developed learning material is found effective to be used in teaching and learning process, and be able to motivate the students to learn chemistry. The facilities provided in the material are adequate to guide the student to study chemistry independently that make learning activities moving from teacher centre learning become students centre learning. Students achievements in experimental class (M = 83.0) is found higher than that with control class (M = 73.5), where both are significantly different. There is a positive correlation between the student’s motivations with the student’s achievement in chemistry subject, where the correlation in experimental class (R² = 0.711) is better than in control class (R² = 0.467).
Highlights
The trend for bilingual teaching and learning of science with English as second language has increasingly implemented in many countries (Benson, 2004; Carstens, 2015; Catter, 2011; Purkarthofer & Mossakowski, 2011; Traore et al, 2008), including in Indonesia
The aim of this study is to develop an innovative chemistry learning material for bilingual Senior High School (SHS) students to meet the requirement of national curriculum in Indonesia
Chemistry learning material has provided with specific elements such as: (1) Teacher guide as an instructions for teachers to use the materials in teaching and learning process, the list of students activities in the classroom or outside classroom, the allocation time provided to complete a chapter, learning media to be used in teaching and learning activities, the instruction on learning strategy to deliver the chemistry subjects, and the evaluation test, (2) Student activity sheets and work sheets containing the relevant subject matter for students, (3) Drills and the problem solving answers are provided at the end of every book chapter, and (4) The evaluation test to measure students achievement on chemistry is provided along with key answer for self evaluation and correction assessment tool
Summary
The trend for bilingual teaching and learning of science with English as second language has increasingly implemented in many countries (Benson, 2004; Carstens, 2015; Catter, 2011; Purkarthofer & Mossakowski, 2011; Traore et al, 2008), including in Indonesia. The bilingual teachings are conducted both in Indonesian and English for special class which is known as “kelas unggulan” in selected schools. Most of the schools are still using chemistry textbook that are published in Indonesian language, while the learning instructions are given in English. It is needed to design a teaching and learning material for bilingual teaching to make the teaching activities effective and efficient.
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