The Students’ Need Analysis to Develop Teaching and Learning Materials of English Proficiency Test  

Oleh:

Wulandari, Tita Ratna

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 1, page 277-281.
Topik: English Proficiency Test; Instructional Design; and Learning Materials
Fulltext: hal 277.pdf (16.57MB)

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Developing teaching and learning materials on English proficiency test is an essential attempt to help people successfully taking the test. This study focused on Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) which is really recognized and acceptable in Indonesia. In fact, TOEFL is mostly used by Indonesian Government Agencies and private companies as one of their employees’ recruitment standards, for example, the recruitment of public servant in State Ministry of Women Empowerment and Child Protection in 2014 requires the applicants to have a certificate of 450-TOEFL score. This study was only a first stage (i.e. need analysis) of future research (i.e. research and development stages) which followed the procedures of Dick and Carey’s instructional design. Therefore, this initial study was only aimed to collect the data of test takers’ needs for their learning in order to help writers to the next stage of R&D procedures. At the initial level, writer had done test for twice and was considered as tryout cycle 1 and 2. The test resulted the average score for 358 and 365. This study was done by distributing questionnaire for 20 samples (senior high school students). At the end, the results of questionnaire distributed showed that there were eleven instructional goals which the students want to reach, based on the order of frequency improving their skill on analyzing grammar became the most wanted goal, and the last expected goal was improving their skill on listening to short dialog. In addition, this research also figured out three ways that the candidate expect during the process on achieving the instructional goals targeted.

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