JURNAL BAHASA INGGRIS DEVELOPING ICT-BASED READING MATERIALS FOR GRADE-EIGHT STUDENTS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Penulis : Arimbawa, I Nyoman1, Kerti Nitiasih, Putu2, Sudiana, I Nyoman3

Keywords: ICT, material development, and reading materials.

Jurnal Penelitian | JURNAL BAHASA INGGRIS DEVELOPING ICT-BASED READING MATERIALS FOR GRADE-EIGHT STUDENTS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL | In the history of English instruction in Secondary Schools in Indonesia, reading ability was considered very important. Prior to the English Curriculum 2004 the objective of teaching English was developing communicative ability embracing four language skills with the first priority on reading skill. In the ‘Kurikulum 2004’ (Curriculum 2004 or Competency Based Curriculum [CBC]) and School Based Curriculum (SBC), the four language skills or competencies (listening, speaking, reading and writing) have equal position.

However, special consideration is still given to the reading competency as the competency which is assessed in the ‘Ujian Nasional’ (National Assessment). The teaching of reading should be based on the curriculum (Dit.PSMA, 2010). The curriculum serves as the basis on which the teachers design their reading instructions. Moreover, the teaching of reading will be enhanced through the incorporation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) (Winch et al., 2006; Tomlinson, 2007; Dudeney & Hockly, 2007; Kervin & Derewianka, 2008; Harmer, 2010). 

ICT facilitates the teachers to get various resources and make variations on their instructional design and its implementation in the classroom. In the English Curriculum (CBC and SBC), it is stated that the competency standard of grade-eight students of Junior High School is to communicate orally or in writing with appropriate register fluently and accurately in interactional and monologue texts especially in the form of descriptive, recount and narrative. The basic reading competency of grade-eight students is to understand meanings and rhetorical steps of written descriptive, recount and narrative texts as well as short messages which cover identifying general information, specific information and the meaning of word/phrase/sentence in the texts; identifying the generic structure of the texts; and reading the texts aloud with appropriate pronunciation, stress and intonation.

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JURNAL BAHASA INGGRIS DEVELOPING ICT-BASED READING MATERIALS FOR GRADE-EIGHT STUDENTS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL