The Portrait of Students’ Need for English Speaking Materials in Nursing Vocational School

Nursiti Aisyah Paputungan(1*), Moon H. Otoluwa(2), Karmila Machmud(3),

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Need analysis is a very important part before designing the materials. The aim of this research is to analyze students need in tenth grade at SMK Negeri 1 Bulango Selatan for developing English Speaking materials. The study based on the need analysis framework proposed by Lamb (responded background), Hutchinson and Water consist of target need (goals, necessities, lacks and wants) and learning need, and Nunan focusing on learning need (input, setting, procedures, teachers’ role and learners role). The data collected through observation, interview, and questionnaire. the participants were 30 students at Nursing vocational class in SMK Negeri 1 Bulango Selatan who participated in fill the questionnaire. The study found that the Nursing vocational students made many mistakes in speaking English like grammatical mistakes and poor vocabularies. Then, the materials not focused on the nursing vocational to support their career in the future. The result of students need analysis of responded background shows that proficiency level in English are average and bad. In target need and learning need shows that the students of Nursing vocational need to enhance their ability in speaks. Finally, based on the result of students need analysis the researcher make the English speaking material based on the students need

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