Developing Written News Item Text Materials for the Tenth Graders of Senior High School

Abstract

School Based Curriculum or ―Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan” (KTSP) 2008 requires teaching and learning activities that should be active, innovative, creative, enjoyable, cheerful and qualified. In order to share or help teachers, this Research and Development (R&D) research was conducted that may inspire them in developing teaching and learning materials for the expected class. The scope of this study is developing written news item text materials for the ten graders of senior high school so that the students are able to create a simple short news item texts which are classified into four kinds: straight, interpretative, investigative and color news stories. The method used was adapted and adjusted from Hyland‘s Model of material development. The process started from doing a survey, followed by developing materials, having experts and teachers validation, doing first revision, trying out, writing second revision, and producing final result. The try out resulted student average score 76,14 that means the students achieved 79,55 % above minimum national learning mastery, 75. This study focuses on the written news item texts from the 3 sources, namely newspapers, magazine and internet. Since the three sources are available in one source, the internet, the final product is entitled ―3 News in 1‖ accompanied by Interactive Self-study VCD‘. ―Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan‖ (KTSP), 2008, mensyaratkan proses belajar mengajar yang aktif, inovatif, kreatif, menyenangkan, gembira, berbobot.Untuk berbagi dengan atau membantu guru, penelitian Research and Development (R&D) ini mungkin memberi inspirasi mereka dalam pengembangan materi pembelajaran seperti kelas yang diharapkan tersebut. Ruang lingkup penelitian ini adalah untuk mengembangkan materi teks berita tertulis bagi kelas X sekolah menengah tingkat atas agar siswa dapat membuat teks berita singkat yang diklasifikasikan dalam empat jenis: straight, interpretative, investigative dan color news stories. Metode penelitian yang digunakan diadaptasi dari model pengembangan materi Hyland. Proses penelitian dimulai dari melakukan survei, yang diikuti dengan pengembangan materi, validasi oleh guru dan ahli, revisi pertama, uji coba, revisi kedua, dan menyusul hasil akhir. Uji coba menunjukkan angka rata-rata 76,14 yang berarti 79,55 % diatas angka criteria ketuntasan minimal, 75. Penelitian ini fokus pada teks berita tertulis dari tiga sumber, yaitu koran, majalah, dan internet. Dikarenakan ketiga sumber tersebut di dalam satu materi, internet, produk akhir disebut ―3 berita dalam 1‖ yang dilengkapi dengan VCD interaktif untuk belajar sendiri.