Developing a Printable Picture Book Based on Local Heritage to Teach Descriptive Text Writing for the 10th Grade

Abstract

This study was intended to develop a printable picture book based on local heritage to teach descriptive text writing. This study aims at finding out students’ needs in learning English descriptive text, process of developing a printable picture book based on local heritage, and quality of a printable picture book based on local heritage. Borg and Gall’s RnD method (1983) was adopted in this study. Three instruments were used in this research. The open-ended questionnaire and the semi-structured interview were employed to collect data of students’ needs in learning English descriptive text writing, both instruments were analyzed qualitatively based on Miles and Huberman’s (2014) theory. The experts’ validation sheet were used to collect data of developing process and quality of the product. The instrument were analyzed quantitatively by using descriptive statistics adopted from Johnson & Christensen (2014). Data analysis revealed that first, the students needed printable picture book based on local heritage as a learning media with an interesting content in learning descriptive text writing. Second, the five processes of the developing product; Research and Information Collection, Planning, Developing Preliminary Form of Product, Main Product Revision, and Operational Product Revision were passed successfully. Third, the printable picture book based on local heritage is qualified to be used. To be concluded, the product is potential enough to use as a teaching media for teaching descriptive text writing for a large scale of schools.