Designing Reading Materials for ESP Students at Vocational High School of Medical Science (SMK) Husada Pratama Serang

stone, rasndi; hamzah puadi ilyas, ph.d; dr. santi chairani djonhar, m.a;

The study attempted to design reading materials for Medical Science at Vocational
High School Medical Science Husada Pratama Serang. To produce satisfactory teaching materials, the researcher did the following steps: doing needs analysis, reviewing the principles of materials design and reading in a foreign language, designing course framework, designing syllabus, designing the reading materials, and implementing the sample lessons. The researcher employed qualitative methods in gathering the data. The instruments used were questionnaire and interview. The questionnaire was addressed to students, alumni, teachers and institution at that school. The interview was done collect information from the companies or users that have ever recruited the academy’s graduates. The needs analysis was carried out by distributing questionnaires. The results were then analyzed. The result of needs analysis, became the basis for the researcher to design course framework. The course framework was then developed into a syllabus. Finally the syllabus
became the basis for designing reading materials. The reading materials for Vocational High School Husada Pratama applied a topical syllabus. Each lesson or unit had different topics, greeting and introduction. Introduction about nurse, health, dialogue conversation nurse and patient, eat healthy food, profile a
nurse, tools, disease, nutrition, the healthy diet pyramid. Each lesson also adopted various reading skills or strategies. They were skimming, scanning, and guessing meaning from context.