THE DEVELOPMENT OF POP CULTURE INTO ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS

Abstract

The purposes of the study are: 1) to reveal the way to develop pop culture for English teaching materials; 2) to portray the implementation of pop culture-based English teaching material. The study applies qualitative methods integrating two collecting data techniques of interview and texts analysis. The informants interviewed were graduate students of the English Language Education Department, University of Muhammadiyah Malang, Indonesia who took the English Language Material Development course. The texts or documents analyzed were syllabus and teaching plan that had been designed. The data of the study is interviews and texts related to popular culture such as pictures, music, food and beverages, sports and movies. The informants were English teacher who taught at schools so that they had teaching English experience. The main findings of the study showed that popular culture such as picturess of food and beverages, music, sports and entertainment can be developed into English language teaching materials. Informants implemented the English language teaching material containing popular culture in the classroom through peer teaching programs. This study can be applied in designing English language teaching material taught at junior high schools in Malang city of Indonesia. It also can be useful for English teachers who need to develop teaching materials from which they are able to improve their students English communication competence. The novelty of this study is that it may benefit teachers for developing English language teaching materials and it is strengthening the teachers’ knowledge of teaching and learning process at the classroom. This study enables teachers to enhance students learning experience through class activities.