English Instructional Materials Research Articles

The Content Analysis of English Textbooks Based on Alan Cunningsworth’s Criteria: A Systematic Review

This investigation endeavors to elucidate the merits and demerits inherent in English textbooks as delineated in a myriad of scholarly articles dedicated to the content analysis of pedagogical materials for English instruction. A plethora of English textbooks, disseminated by governmental or non-governmental publishers, underwent scrutiny through the prism of various theoretical frameworks, most notably Alan Cunningsworth's discerning criteria. Employing a systematic review, this research meticulously unveils the commendable aspects and deficiencies encapsulated within the fabric of English textbooks or coursebooks expounded upon in the surveyed articles. A compendium of fifteen articles, spanning the temporal expanse from 2015 to 2023, was subjected to rigorous analysis through the discerning lens of Alan Cunningsworth's evaluative criteria. The discerning scrutiny revealed that all the scrutinized English textbooks impeccably adhered to and fulfilled the exacting standards posited by Cunningsworth's criteria. However, interspersed within these articles lay instances where certain textbooks failed to meet the stringent criteria delineated by Alan Cunningsworth. This investigation aspires to transcend its immediate findings, serving as a beacon of reference for future researchers and English educators engaged in the analytical or evaluative scrutiny of English instructional materials

Developing English Instructional Materials for Young Learners Oriented to Left and Right Brain Accommodation

Developing English Instructional Materials for Young Learners Oriented to Left and Right Brain Accommodation

Evaluating the Readability of English Instructional Materials in Pakistani Universities: A Deep Learning and Statistical Approach

Evaluating the Readability of English Instructional Materials in Pakistani Universities: A Deep Learning and Statistical Approach

Using Arcs Model to Develop Motivational Web-Based English Instructional Materials for Learning Disabilities Students in Sabah

Using Arcs Model to Develop Motivational Web-Based English Instructional Materials for Learning Disabilities Students in Sabah

Developing English Instructional Materials by Combining YouTube and ABA (American and British Academy) Application

This research was based on the students’ problem regarding the English teaching, especially English materials where they have poor English skills because the lecturer did not have instructional materials related to their department, the media and method did not interesting, and instructional facilities did not enough to cover the learning process. The objective of this research was to develop English speaking materials based on modified ADDIE approach (Analyze, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation). This research was conducted at the Biological students of Muhammadiyah University of Parepare, Indonesia. The method used in this research was developmental research which attempts to develop English learning material for English skills based on the modified ADDIE approach (Analyze, Design, and Development). The researcher applied design instructional as the research design. The researcher implemented some steps in developing English speaking materials; Need Analysis, Design, Development, Expert Validation, Revision, Try Out, and Final Product. The result of the research was The suitable materials for Biological students of Muhammadiyah University of Parepare were authentic materials. The development was coursebook which was designed to possibly for the students working on it. The materials were adopted from YouTube and ABA English. The instructional materials focused on input, process, and output. The students’ positive perception toward the instructional materials was in a very good value and the lecturer’s positive perception was also in very good value. It means that English for Biology instruction has a good quality in the form of the course map, lesson plan, lecturer’s manual, topic, video clips, materials, students’ worksheet, learning activities, and assessment

Developing English for Tourism Learning Model Based on Hypermedia

The development of the global tourism industry rapidly makes the importance of English communication skill at tourism workplace. State Polytechnic of Lampung has provided English subjects 1, 2, and 3 for students. Unfortunately, the implementation has not given any significant contribution to improve students’ English communication skills especially English for tourism. English instructional materials did not fulfill students’ needs and stakeholders’ needs and standard English competences in tourism workplace. The limitation of learning source become a learning problem for students due to limitation of time to practice English out site of classroom without teacher’s guidance. Therefore, it is important to develop a kind of learning model which independence resource that gives a solution to solve the learning problems. Developing model of English learning for tourism based on hypermedia was intended to give an alternative independence learning resource to improve competences in English for Tourism based on hypermedia. The developing of English learning model base on hypermedia applied research and development (R&D) model used a combination of Dick and Carrey model, Hannafin peck Model and Allen model. There were three stages in developing model of English for tourism based on hypermedia. The first step was conducting needs analysis; identifying instructional goals, conducting instructional analysis, and analyzing learners and contexts. The second step was designing material for learning based on hypermedia that was electronic module; writing instructional objectives, developing assessment instruments, and developing learning strategies. The third steps were developing learning material and implementation; developing and selecting instructional materials, implementing and conducting formative evaluation and revision. The results of the formative evaluation from subject matter experts (instructional, media and English for tourism), one to one evaluation, showed that model of English learning for tourism based on hypermedia generally was categorized very good (average score: 89,31). One to one evaluation by three learners was also and small group evaluation by eight learners which evaluated on clarity, impact on learners and feasibility showed that design model of English learning for tourism based on hypermedia was categorized very good. Field trial that was conducted to 37 students indicated that model design of English learning based on hypermedia for tourism was good and suitable with learning objective, easy to use and understand, demonstrate learning experiences, sufficient for English materials, useful, assessment measure learning outcome, feedback, interesting and engaging learning, motivating, and collaboration between students. The t-test paired sample test showed that design of English for tourism was effective to be used as learning resources with average pretest score was 58,05 and average post test score was 70,92 with gain score was 12,86, while the significant (2-tailed) was 0,000 < 0,05.

Needs Analysis: The Primary Step in Designing English Instructional Materials for Nursing Students

This research intended to analyze and identify the needs of English instructional materials (ESP) for nursing students. English in higher education in non-English major is only as a General Basic Subject and the material provided is only general English. Whereas ideally English material taught should be adjusted to their major. So, needs analysis was required to find out the need for English teaching materials on the nursing department so that students could get the appropriate materials they really need to support their future careers to be professional nurses. This study design was a descriptive qualitative with subjects were 81 nursing students, heads of nursing study programs, 3 ESP lecturers, 2 Indonesian nurses, 2 Indonesian nurses who work in overseas hospital. The research instrument used a questionnaire and interviews. The results showed that in general, students' English skills were still low. From the 4 language skills, speaking become the main priority to provide them fulfilling their profession’s demands in accordance with the job market, namely being able to communicate in English well. They also expected ESP English teaching materials that are relevant to nursing major to support their professional careers. 86% students believed if English materials related to nursing major will improve their interest in learning. Besides that, there are also 12 nursing topics that students need to support their world of work later. This research results will be guidance in making appropriate syllabus and developing English for nursing textbook.

Developing English Materials for Efl Learners at Islamic Junior High School

The purpose of this research was to develop an EFL course book for the first semester learners at the Islamic junior high school in Indonesia. The material development includes some procedures of need analysis, material development, expert validation, material revision, try-out and final revision. Based on the results of questionnaires distributed to 106-second graders, the interviews done to the teachers and field notes taken from a document of the syllabus, this research revealed that most of the students and English teachers require English instructional materials embracing religious and general knowledge. After validated by the experts and tried-out to the students, this research finally produced English materials that were supplemented by a teacher‟s guide, student‟s worksheets and a CD containing listening materials.

Developing English Materials for Efl Learners at Islamic Junior High School

The purpose of this research was to develop an EFL course book for the first semester learners at the Islamic junior high school in Indonesia. The material development includes some procedures of need analysis, material development, expert validation, material revision, try-out and final revision. Based on the results of questionnaires distributed to 106-second graders, the interviews done to the teachers and field notes taken from a document of the syllabus, this research revealed that most of the students and English teachers require English instructional materials embracing religious and general knowledge. After validated by the experts and tried-out to the students, this research finally produced English materials that were supplemented by a teacher‟s guide, student‟s worksheets and a CD containing listening materials.

NEEDS ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH FOR MIDWIFERY PURPOSES AT MIDWIFERY ACADEMY OF HARAPAN MULYA PONOROGO

This study aimed at describing the need analysis of English for Midwifery Purposes. The study was conducted at Midwifery Academy of Harapan Mulya Ponorogo in February 2018. The respondents were 34 students and 7 lecturers. Data collected through a questionnaire that was given to the students. The interview was conducted with 7 midwife lecturers. Data analyzed descriptively. The results of the study revealed that most students (61.8% believe that English was very useful. Almost half of the respondents (38,2%) said that English was useful to communicate with foreigner patients. 41.2 % of respondents wanted to study English in order to succeed in getting a job in the future. 23% of the respondents suggested that English teaching should be emphasized on speaking skill. 18.8% of respondents wanted the English instructional materials consisted of Antenatal care, 15.3 % about therapeutic communication. Meanwhile, Need analysis based on teachers’ perception in many things have similarity with students’ perception. They were the usefulness of English, Emphasizing English materials and teaching process. Researchers suggested to the lecturer to design English teaching material that suits the needs of midwifery students.

Overview of the Nursing Students' Needs: The Initial Step in Designing English Instructional Materials

Numerous factors influence students' learning outcomes. Among them is the teaches' use of high-quality instructional materials. Essentially, teachers provide materials to assist students in comprehending the material on a subject to reach the goal properly. When teaching English to nursing students, materials should be based on the students' unique needs, which are addressed in English for Specific Purposes (ESP). This research aimed to describe nursing students' needs for English Instructional Material in University context. This study employed mix method. The data collection techniques used were document, interview, and questionnaire. The document analysis revealed that the learning materials did not meet the needs of nursing students seeking to advance their careers. Additionally, the questionnaire and interview analysis results demonstrate the critical nature of developing English teaching materials for nursing students. As a result, English teaching materials for nursing students are needed to assist them in mastering the English language skills necessary to support their professional careers.t their professional carrier. 

Developing Culture-Based English Instructional Materials to Improve Students’ Thinking, ELT Achievement, and Classroom Interaction

The research aimed to provide students’ learning and target needs of incorporating culture-based English instructionalmaterials in enhancing students’ critical thinking skills, ELT achievement, and classroom interaction at the Central Lombok middle schools. The research was a quantitative study. The 350 students and 10 English teachers were involved in the research. The average of students’ age ranged from 12-13 years old, while the English teachers were certified Englishteachers at the middle schools. They had also been from five to seven years of teaching practice experience. The data were collected using a questionnaire to see the students’ and teachers’ needs that were focused on target needs and learning needs. The target needs comprised the learning goals, lacks, and wants, while the learning needs included learning inputs, students’ roles, and classroom management. The data were analyzed using some steps; computation, display, drawing conclusion, and verification processes. Based on the data analysis, the target needs show that students are expected to get English proficiencies by providing them various cultural materials, namely local arts, traditional games, traditional rates, traditional technologies, and traditional pieces of literature. It can bring them to think critically to improve ELT achievement and build classroom interaction. At the same time, the analysis of learning needs informs that students need an appropriate English learning approach. They show they have an intention to be autonomous learners.

Developing Inquiry Learning-Based English Instructional Materials for the Seventh Grade of Junior High School

This research is aimed to developing instructional English materials for the students of the seventh grade especially in basic competencies 3.5, 4.5, 3.6, and 4.6 at MTs Madani Pao-pao based on 2013 curriculum supported by using inquiry learning model and using the concept of HOTS in indicators achieved. The research design used in this study was Research and Development (R&D). The development model used was ADDIE model. It consists of need analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. The procedures included analyzing materials needed by spreading questionnaire to the students and analyzing the basic competencies used, designing a blueprint of materials and the instructional materials, and validating the material by the expert. There were 146 students as the respondents of 26 questionnaire questions. The instruments used in this research were the documents, questionnaire, and validation checklist. In this research, the expert was involved in order to validate the product. There were three systematic aspects that they validated of the product: Materials Systematic Organization, Systematic English Teaching and Systematic Content of English. Therefore, the result indicated that based on experts judgment as well as product development result, the developed basic competency 3.5 & 4.5 and basic competency 3.6 & 4.6 were applicable to be taught at the seventh grade students of Junior High School as topic in English for them.

Safaliba community language awareness: ‘Safale̱ba—a dage̱ya ka o̱ bebee!*’ * ‘Safaliba—it is important for it to exist!’

Safaliba is an Indigenous Ghanaian language spoken by 7–9,000 Ghanaians in a nation-state of 29 million people with 73 indigenous languages, none of which are spoken by a majority of Ghanaians. Government schools in Safaliba towns and villages are mandated to utilize Gonja and English instructional reading materials from the Ghana Education Service and the Ministry of Education. Gonja is nothing like Safaliba from a morphosyntactic and semantic point of view, making it difficult for most young Safaliba to learn to read. Recent indigenous activist endeavors have disrupted mandates in two Safaliba primary schools in the largest Safaliba town, Mandari, and have begun teaching children to read in Safaliba. The purpose of this paper is to explore Safaliba community awareness of the grassroots moves to school children in Safaliba reading and writing. The study includes ethnographic data from field notes, photographs and 75 interviews with Safaliba subsistence farming families. Findings present a view of community language awareness for Safaliba literacy in the schools as a positive move. Moreover, the study presents a strong, inspiring snapshot of situated community activism in a language struggling for recognition in Ghana’s postcolonial educational language policy.

Developing English Material of Agriculture for 7th Grade Students of SMP Plus Al-Mubarak Kalisat, Jember

A lot of seventh grade students of SMP Plus Al-Mubarak found many problems in understanding their English instructional materials. Designing English Materials of Agriculture for students in SMP Plus Al-Mubarak Kalisat, Jember can motive them in learning English better. Concerning these problems, a set of suitable instructional materials of English for the students of SMP Plus Al-Mubarak needed to be developed. In addition, instructional materials should facilitate the students to enrich their experience, build their knowledge, and construct their comprehension. The instructional materials should consider where the student’ life, culture, background, interest, and their ability. The procedures being employed in this study were RD (Research and Development); collecting information, developing instructional materials, conducting expert validation, revising the materials, finishing the submitted product. (Adapted from Borg and Gall’s Model, 1983). To collect relevant information for a basis of developing materials, the interview with the teacher and students and classroom observation were carried out to complete the information provided in the existing materials. The product of this research is five units of English materials of agriculture which focuses on second semester.

DEVELOPING A MODEL OF ENGLISH INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS USING ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSE (ESP) APPROACH FOR INFORMATION SYSTEM (SI) STUDENTS OF STMIK PALANGKA RAYA

ABSTRACTThe lecturers of STMIK Palangka Raya were given the autonomy in developing the curriculum andsyllabus of English subject so they must use English instructional material that related with the developedcurriculum and syllabus. So that, the writer was interested in developing English instructional material andconsidering English for specific purpose as the approach in developing the material. The topics of thedeveloped English instructional materials were about computer and technology. The subject of this R &Dstudy was the Information System (SI) students of STMIK Palangka Raya. The research accomplishedthrough the procedures of need analysis, first draft material development, expert validation, materialsrevision, material try out and final draft of material revision. The instrument used in this study consisted ofobservation, questionnaire and guided interview for the students, lecturers and also the expert validation.The data obtained were analyzed and described qualitatively. The result of the need analysis showed thatthe students were in the need of English Instructional Materials which were relevant to their major contentcourse and their level of English proficiency. Related to this condition, the materials taken from someEnglish for computer user books and some related websites. The data of try out showed that theeffectiveness of the developed material in teaching learning process during try out, the observation andinterview reflected that the students were very interested about the latest English Instructional Materialsand they got involve actively in teaching learning process.Keywords: developing instructional material, English for specific purpose, English for computer user

Developing Culture-Based English Instructional Materials for Grade VII of Junior High School Students

The research aims at developing culture-based English instructional materials (henceforth, CBEIM) for grade VII of Junior High School students and reveal its final product representation in terms of its effectiveness. The research design was a research and development. The procedure of product development consisted of conducting needs analysis, designing course grids, developing the first draft, implementing the final draft, and evaluating the final product. The product implementation consisted of the 1st tryout involving 4 students from Yogyakarta State Junior High School (henceforth, Y-SJHS) 10, the 2nd tryout involving 34 students from Y-SJHS 7, and there were 68 students involved in the 3rd tryout. They were from Y-SJHS 9 and Y-SJHS 10. The data were collected by using evaluation sheets, an English achievement test, questionnaire to measure students’ level of internalization and actualization toward culture values, and questionnaires for teachers’ responses. The data were analyzed by t-test using paired and independent sample with the gain score. The research finding reveals 1) based on the content expert validation, CBEIM was very good by the aspect of content, language, learning, culture, presentation, and graphical design, whereas based on the graphical design expert, CBEIM was good. 2) Having been implemented, the final product representation was proven to be effective. The students in the experiment classes got a higher improvement than those in the control classes. The statistical calculation of independent samples test with gain score of the English test from the two groups shows the t values of 2.931 with the p = 0.004 < 0.05, while the t-test for equality of means of culture values, t value reached 2.524 and its significance of 2-tailed reached p = 0.037 < 0.05, alpha value (α=0.05). Since the gain score is smaller than 0.05, CBEIM demonstrates that it can show a significant difference between the experiment and control classes in encouraging students to internalize and actualize the culture values.

Developing EFL learning materials for adult learners

The current study aimed at developing English instructional materials for listening and speaking as additional learning sources. The research was conducted at Universitas Islam Negeri Mataram, Indonesia. The population was university students of semester three in academic year 2018/2019. There were 48 students as the respondents of 20 questionnaires. The current study followed Research and Development Procedures proposed by Borg & Gall (1979). It involves (1) a preliminary stage and collects information, (2) planning, (3) develop of product, (4) expert validation, (5) small-scale and large-scale field tried-out the students. The result of the research has shown that Indonesian students have confirmed the need for listening and speaking English materials. Since the existing materials used in learning had weaknesses, including the lack of opportunity for listening and speaking, the researchers have developed the TEFL materials to meet the standard. After being validated by the experts, and tried-out to the students, the developed TEFL materials have been able to improve students’ speaking ability.

DEVELOPING ENGLISH MATERIALS BASED ON SAINTIFIC APPROACH THROUGH ISLAMIC CONTENT FOR ISLAMIC SENIOR HINGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

This curent study conducts research and development aiming to developed an appropriate English Instructional materials for Islamic characters based on saintific approach in 2013 Curriculum. Futhermore, this study were carried out at second and the third grade of Islamic Junior High School Mataram with total number 30 students involved as well as participants. In the phase of obtaining information, needs analysis and trying out, this study utilized a reserch and development study with saintific approach i.e. observing, associating, experimenting, associating and communicating. This study utilized needs analysis as main instrument in composing the English instructional materials through Scientific Approach, official approach of 2013 Curriculum. The product of the study shows that an English textbook, the four major skills of english were balance improved,i.e. listening, speaking, reading and writing. All of the materials are appropriate with the saintific aprroach in 2013 Curriculum and the contents refer to students’ Islamic character. The materials are for second and thisd grade of Islamic junior hihg School which are laid out into seven units. To summ up, the laid out and composition of the english material were developed based on Scientific Approach in term of steps and exercises of learning materials.

Developing Web-based English Instructional Material Oriented to Promote Independent Learning at Indonesian University Context

The objective of this research is to develop web-based English instructional materials which enable to promote students’ independent learning at university context. To comprehend this objective, the researcher employs R & D (Research and Development) design by mixing quantitative and qualitative methods. This research is conducted at Faculty of Engineering Tadulako University. The subjects of the study are the lecturers who teach English for the general course and the students of faculty of Engineering. Subject matter experts were also involved to validate the product. The data were collected through semi-structured interview; study the related documents and the results of questionnaire distribution. The data in these phases were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. In reference to data analysis, five findings are documented as explored in this part of the article. In summary, the development of web-based English instructional materials oriented to promote independent learning is effective and responded positively both lecturers and students. With the various supported activities and along with the flexible learning atmosphere and methods of delivery, the web-based English instructional materials are effective to promote students’ independent learning.