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DEVELOPING WORDPRESS-BASED MEDIA FOR TEACHING READING

(Research and Development)
Arranged by:
Laela Fitri Febia, Dina Rachmawati, Siti Hikmah
UNIVERSITY OF SULTAN AGENG TIRTAYASA
2019

INTRODUCTION information that can be accessed easily. No

1.1 Background
Reading is a process through which reader
tries to catch author’s point of view or idea
in order to communicate with the author.
Reading becomes a significant skill
considering need of understanding written
text. Broughton et al. argued, "Reading is a
complex skill, that is to say, that it involves
a whole series of lesser skill" (Broughton &
et al., 2002). Reading may be considered as
the key to get information from books,
magazines, newspaper, and brochure. Many
books written in English and reading skill
will aid students to fulfil their need.
Meanwhile, in digital era the use of internet
is very important. Educators need to see the
benefits that technology can bring teaching
reading with involving ICT as the media in
teaching and learning processes.
Internet opens up sources of information
that were previously difficult to access,
now it is not a problem any longer. The
internet has become a necessity for
everyone. The internet opens all
exception in education, the internet is also a
source of information for students.
Research in the United States by Pavlik
about the use of communication and
information for educational purposes is
known have a positive impact (Isjoni,
2008). The Indonesia government also
supports the use of the internet in the
learning process, can be seen that teachers
and students in the demand to access the
internet as a learning source. The internet
can be useful in the learning process. Based
on the researcher’s experience during the
preservice teaching program, there were
problems faced by teachers and students in
teaching reading process. First students did
not get a text containing local content.
Second, teacher used text book as a
worksheet which was not practical and easy
for the students. Third, teacher rarely
involved the internet as a learning media.
Those were the reasons why researcher was
interested in research conducting website as
a learning media to teach reading.

There are two previous research related to
this research. First, was conducted by
Rachmawati, et. al. (2019). This research
used WordPress in developing
interactive media. Another
research was conducted by Murti (2018) a
student at University of Sultan Ageng
Tirtayasa. This research used
Listening as the media. The similarities of
the two studies above with this research are
developing learning media and using
WordPress. While the differences are the
first research is about developing
WordPress as an interactive media, and the
second one is of the Audio Listening as the
Media. Thus, there is no research and
development in reading area. So, the
researcher chose this research with entitled
“Developing WordPress-based Media for
Teaching Reading”. The research consists
of five chapters, appendices,
documentations which include the data
collected by the researcher.
1.2 Identification of Problems
1. Students still had difficulty in reading
English texts, especially narrative text
2. There was no interesting media that
supported the teaching and learning process
3. The English teacher only uses book as
the media when teach the material.
1.3 Limitation of Problems
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The researcher limits the problem of this
study on developing worksheet through
word-press learning media in reading
an comprehension for legend in narrative text.
previous 1.4 Research Questions
1. What are students’ learning needs in
reading of narrative text?
Audio 2. How is the process of developing a word
press media for reading comprehension in
narrative text?
3. How is the quality of the media?
1.5 Objective of Research
1. To find out what are the students
learning needs in reading of narrative text.
2. To know the process of developing a
word press media for reading
comprehension in narrative text.
3. To find out the quality of the product.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1. Research Design
and This research was intended to develop
WordPress media for teaching English,
especially in narrative text at tenth-grade of
senior high school. Thus, research and
development design was used in this
research. The research adapted the model
of research and development proposed by
Borg and Gall. Based (Gall & Borg 1983:
p. 772) Educational Research and
Development (R&D) is a process used to
develop and validate educational products
(Gall & Borg, 1983). The steps of this
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process are usually referred to the R & D and researcher’s capability in developing
cycle, which consists of several steps there the product.
are research and information collecting, 1. Research and information collecting
planning, developing preliminary product, 2. Planning
preliminary field testing, main product 3. Develop a preliminary form
revision, main field testing, and operational 4. Preliminary field testing
product revision. The steps can be seen on 5. Main product revision
Figure 3.1: 6. Main field testing
7. Operational product revision
3.5. Research Instrument
3.5.1 Semi-structured Interview
The interview was conducted to an English
teacher that taught tenth grade students at
3.2. The Model of Development
SMAN 1 Ciruas. Researcher used field note
This study adapted Borg and Gall’s (1983)
and voice recorders to collect the data and
model. In which only seven out of ten steps
information obtained. The interview session
were taken. The original steps are consists
was conducted to find out the teaching and
of ten steps are follows:
learning process the media that use in
1. Research and information collecting
teaching reading, and students responses
2. Planning
related to the media that use in teaching
3. Develop a preliminary form
reading. Furthermore the data obtained used
4. Preliminary field testing
as the basis information to develop
5. Main product revision
appropriate local content-based WordPress
6. Main field testing
media for teaching reading.
7. Operational product revision
8. Operational field testing
9. Final product-testing
10. Dissemination and implementation
3.4. Procedure of Research
There were seven steps that used in this
study. These steps used due to the
researcher’s need, the limitation of time,
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3.5.2 Open-Ended Questionnaire for

needs Analysis
The open-ended questionnaire was used in
order to find out the students’ learning
needs. The students’ open-ended
questionnaire distributed to 36 tenth grade
students at SMAN 1 Ciruas. The students’
needs analysis form was adapted from
(Nation & Mecalister, 2010).
Meanwhile, for Media expert judgment there
are has five aspects, consists of learning
objectives, usability, functionality, visual
communication, and Layout.

3.5.3 Experts Judgement Form

Experts’ judgement form will be used for
judgement from expert in order to evaluate
or revise the WordPress material made by
researcher whether the product
appropriate or not. This form conducted
after researcher made and revised the
product. The form used five scales to
measure the quality of the product based on
likert-scale. There are five categories, first
is very poor, second is poor, three is
enough, four is good and five is very good.
is
3.5.4 Students Assessment
The students assessment form has purpose
to collect the students’ assessment based on
WordPress media given. The students’
assessment form was distributed twice to
tenth grade students at SMA N 1 CIRUAS.
The assessment form the students were in
the form of likert scale five categories.

3.6. Data Collection technique
Based on the research question, this
research used three instruments. The first
was qualitative data and the second one
was quantitative data. The qualitative data
obtained to answer the first research
question. The process of R&D was
obtained to answer the second research
question. The quantitative data was used to
answer the second research question. The
first data obtained qualitatively in the form
of the semi-structured interview and
questionnaire. The data was collected on
research and information collecting which
is the first step of developing process. The
second data collected on planning, develop
preliminary product, preliminary field test,
main product revision, main field test and
operational product revision steps. The steps
are used to find out the process of developing
the product in detail.
Third data obtained from the material
expert judgement form, media expert
judgement form, and students’ assessment
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form. The data was collected on
preliminary field and main field test which
are the fourth and sixth steps in developing
process. Both material and expert
judgement form are used to find out
whether the media is appropriate or not to
be implemented in the teaching and
learning process.
3.7. Data Analysis Technique
From the data collection technique, there
were two data used in this research. Those
are qualitative and quantitative data. The
semi-structured interview and students’
questionnaire analysed qualitatively. While,
the material expert judgement form, media
expert judgement form, and students’
assessment form analysed quantitatively.
3.7.1 Qualitative Data Analysis
The analysis of qualitative data, there were
three steps in analysing the qualitative data
adopted by Miles and Huberman (2014).
The analysis of the data in the qualitative
method consists of three steps such a data
condensation, data display, drawing, and
verifying conclusions. The result of semi
structured interview and open-ended
questionnaire analysed qualitatively.
3.7.2 Quantitative Data Analysis
The material expert judgment form, media
expert judgment form, and students’
assessment form were analyzes statistically.
These data were analyzes in descriptive

statistics. Descriptive statistics analysis was
appropriate to be applied in likert scales
since the likert scales contain multiple
items and can be taken to be interval scales.
The process in analyzing the data will be
shown as percentage with the formula:
To analyse validation data from the experts,
researcher used descriptive analysis to
discuss the comment and suggestion from
the expert, then it would be put into table
score and it would be classified by likert
scale as the following:
RESEARCH FINDINGS AND
DISCUSSIONS
4.1 Students’ Needs Analysis
Analysis of the data of research question
number one revealed that students needed a
WordPress media in reading based on
local-content for learning narrative text. It
was supported by the findings of open-
ended questionnaire and semi-structured
interview. The detail information was
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discussed base on the research instruments
as follow:
4.1.1 Open-Ended Questionnaire
Students’ needs analysis from students
open ended questionnaire has accordance
answers with the results of semi-structured
interview analysis. The result from open-
ended questionnaire showed that students’
needs media for their learning activity in
the class especially reading using ICT or
internet to support their understanding and
also avoid boredom. The students also
never get any local content before from the
teacher related to their learning materials.
Each point of the question will be described
qualitatively as follows:
4.1.2 Semi-structured Interview
Analysis of the data from semi-structured
interview showed that the WordPress
media based on local content was needed in
teaching reading on narrative text since the
source of local content stories was limited.
In addition the teacher did not use an
interactive media that involved Internet and
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also always used book as the media in learning process especially in the reading
teaching English. The WordPress media activity. It was based on the judgement
considered to be good not only on the from material expert and media expert.
equipment but also in the spoken text. Besides, the validity of media also
4.2 The Developing of WordPress Media supported bused on the students’
4.2.1 Research Information and assessment.
Collecting 4.3.1 Preliminary Field Testing
In this step the researcher searches data and The first test was given by the material
information as the basis for making the expert:
product because this step can also be called
need analysis. This step has a purpose to
find out whether the media can represent
what students need or not. All data and
information in this step are in the form of
semi structured interviews and students'
needs analysis, which was conducted on
April 18, 2019. Then both of these data are
in qualitative data and the results are used Second from material expert:

as guidelines for making products. There

were seven steps:
1. Research and information collecting
2. Planning
3. Develop a preliminary form
4. Preliminary field testing
5. Main product revision
6. Main field testing
7. Operational product revision
4.3 The Product Quality of WordPress-
based Media
Based on the analysis of the data, the local
content WordPress-based media that
developed was suitable for the teaching and

Third was from students’ assessment:
4.3.2 Main Field Testing
In the second test, the revised product was
judged and tested to material expert, media
expert, and thirty four students. The experts
and the students were given the same
questionnaire as in the preliminary test to
find out the comparison between the first
and second test.
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The result from students’ assessment in
main field testing
5.1 Conclusions
There are three findings that can be showed
from this study. First, the students needed
the WordPress-based media in learning
reading activity. This statement is based on
interview analysis and students’ open-
ended questionnaire, the data showed that
students need other media besides books by
involving the internet, where it can avoid
boredom in the classroom. Second, the
process of developed WordPress-based
media consists of seven steps, there has
gone well according to the every step.
Third the media was appropriate to be used
in the classroom based on the analysis of
the data, the local content WordPress-based
media that developed was suitable for the
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