Material Development of English Correspondence Using Task-Based Approach (TBA) for UNNES Students Abdurrachman Faridi, Fahrur Rozi, and Siti Nurmasitah Universitas Negeri Semarang Abstract :
This study aimed to depict Unnes students’ ability in writing formal letters using English; design and develop correspondence material for English subject in Unnes; and evaluate the effectiveness of correspondence learning by applying Task Based Approach (TBA). This study has been done within a year in Universitas Negeri Semarang by using Research and Development approach. The results indicated that most of the students did not understand formal letter writing using English proven by their lack of knowledge about types of formal letter, letter style, and concept of letter sections. The main problems encountered by the students were garmmar, spelling, and punctuation. Thus, Task Based Approach (TBA) is an effective learning model to teach English correspondence. Correspondence material designing is an urgent need in regards to the advantages obtained by the students that is to develop their skills and ability in writing formal letter in English.
1. Introduction Asean Economy Community (AEC) is an integrated association of southeast Asian nations in economic sector. AEC emerges various competitions among ASEAN countries including business and education to invent professional workers. The quality of education is required to make progress and become the main focus of the development of Indonesian’s education quality. The higher the education quality, the better the output obtained by the learning process. English skills and ablity are essential in facing AEC. It is the key point to face global challenge and AEC. Graduates of Universitas Negeri Semarang are expected to be ready with this kind of situation by possessing a good communication ability in English both in speaking and writing skills. This ability is important since the graduates will face high competition in working field as it also has correlation with the ability in writing formal letters such as business letter and personal letter. However, students still encounter several problems in writing formal letters.
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