Students' Attitudes toward the Use of Authentic Materials in SMPN 2 Ampel

Abstract

The use of authentic material is now developing rapidly. It becomes more popular and widely used, because it is believed that using authentic material to teach English offers more benefits than using non-authentic materials or contrived (textbook). The use of authentic materials are also controversial instead of offering benefits it also believed that authentic materials had its disadvantages, This study aimed to investigate and describe the students' attitude toward the use of authentic materials in teaching reading in SMPN 2 Ampel. The subject of this study involved a group of students, which consists of 2 classrooms at same level or same grade that was eight grade of junior high school, which included 63 students who were taking English class. This study used a descriptive method. Data were collected by teaching students English subject inside the classroom activity using authentic materials. Then, data were collected through questionnaire by some adaptations from Peacock (1997), Rosalina (2006) and Bagus (2011). After that, writer presented the data by using tables and charts. Then, the data was analyzed and described. The result of the study generally showed that the students had positive attitude toward the use of authentic material in reading English subject.