DESIGNING ENGLISH FOR AUTOMOTIVE STUDENTS IN VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

The aims of this research are to identify and analyze the learning needs of Eleventh grade Teknik Sepeda motor in vocational and than t o determine and develop suitable learning materials for Eleventh grade Automotive students in SMK Negeri 5 Sidenreng Rappang. This study is a Research and Development (R & D) study, which aims at designing and producing a finished product that can be used effectively in an education program. Indeed, there is mentioned that “Educational R & D is an industry-based development model in which the findings of research are used to design new products and procedures, which then are systematically field-tested, evaluated, and refined until they meet specified criteria of effectiveness, quality, or similar standards” (Borg and Gall, 2003: 569). Target needs refers to The four skills in learning english are listening, speaking, reading and writing. Each skill plays a crucial role in overall language proficiency. Developing all four skills is important for achieving a balanced and fuctional use of english in different context. Most of the respondents recognized that English competency skills are very important for the automotive students with the percentage score is 30% from 30 correspondent choose speaking skill, and 40% students choose reading skill as described in the following chart. English that always use in the classroom is both of speaking and reading have similarity percentage. The percentage is 36%, it means both of speaking and reading skill is always use in their english classroom. Furthermore, the each of student answer the question, and can choose more option, The highest percentage is Engine Maintenance and Maintenance and repair of Motorcycle Power Transmision system.