Lulu April Farida, Intan Permata Hapsari
This study aims at describing the ESL materials that are needed in junior high school, developing the adapted an Indonesian folktale into an interactive material for an ESL class, and examining its implementation for teaching spoken narrative text to the students of junior high school in an ESL class. This study used Research and Development (R&D) method adapted from Borg and Gall (1985) and Thiagarajan et. al. (1974). The experts and teachers examined the result of designing preliminary form of product based on its defining part of this study. According to their suggestions, an interactive material of Indonesian folktale was successfully designed as a final product. It developed seven learning parts, they are (1) dictation of vocabulary items; (2) listening section; (3) cloze listening test; (4) multiple choices; (5) content of narrative text; (6) retelling story guidelines; (7) story retelling. After main field-testing, it showed that in ESL class teachers needed an interactive material for teaching spoken narrative text which coming from Indonesian stories to build up students’ nationality. It was practical and effective for teaching spoken narrative to students in technological era today. Students also learnt it as enjoy as playing a game. As a result an interactive material of Indonesian folktale is ready to use as one of narrative materials for teaching spoken narrative text to junior high school students in an ESL class.
Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia
