Abstract :
In this study, the researcher found some of characteristic students on third
grade in SD Muhammadiyah 2 Gresik such as students often feel afraid to speak
what they want or speak related with the material during teaching and learning
process, they also get difficulties when they read and try to understand the English
material in text book because they have limited vocabulary. After that, students?
motivations are very low and sometimes students feel boring to study of their
English material in text book. It happened because the material is not interesting.
Those became the reason for the researcher in conducting research development.
It happened because there is no an interesting material. The English teachers
didn?t have any material and media to improve their student?s speaking
motivation. The goal of this study is to develop an English speaking material
using E-Book.
In this research development, there are some steps to develop E-book as
English speaking material, such as need analysis, design instructions,
development material, expert validation, development of validation, try out
material, revision, and final product. Need analysis has been done by giving
questionnaire to students, interview to the English teacher and checklist related to
the content material of E-Book made by the researcher for the expert validation.
After identifying the student?s needs, the researcher designed E-Book based on
the student?s needs and appropriate of syllabus school. Then, the researcher made
some lesson plans that suitable to the syllabus, developed material from some
topic material on some textbooks, and arranged the topic material per unit. After
E-Book (Electronic Book) has been developed as the final product, this product
was given to the expert to be validated and evaluated. The researcher chose some
people to expert and evaluated E-Book like headmaster and English teacher. From
the result of the expert validation, the researcher should revised and developed
more. After that, the researcher did try out to six students of third grade in SD
Muhammadiyah 2 Gresik who are taken randomly by the English teacher.
The product of this research is set of E-book (Electronic Book) for the
elementary school included with material per unit based on syllabus of school
(only first semester). This final product for this study is made in the form of PDF
because this form easier to print when teacher need the material before teaching
and learning process.