DESIGNING NEEDS ANALYSIS-BASED-ENGLISH TRAINING MATERIALS FOR TOURIST DRIVERS AS A MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION SERVICE IN YOGYAKARTA

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This research aimed at Designing Needs Analysis-Based English Training Materials for Tourist Drivers as a Means of Transportation Service in Yogyakarta. It was a multi-design research granted by the directorate of higher education. It focuses on designing English training materials especially for foreign tourist drivers (FTD) by using cultural language learning approach (CLLA) in order to preserve Javanese culture as one of Yogyakarta’s missions defined in its 2004-2025 long-term development. It involved 40 FTD as participants through taxonomic ADDIE procedure which included: (1) analysis (on the FTD needs), (2) designing (prototype of English for Foreign Tourist Drivers/EFTD), (3) developing and (4) implementing (the designed prototype), and (5) evaluating (the developed EFTD). This project found as follows. First, the needs of the FTD was English for survival needs program for false-begining level. Second, based on the results of implementation (training) conducted cyclicaly, EFTD was judged as training materials especially for FTD. Third, the result of evaluation towards the designed product showed that EFTD was significantly able to improve FTD’s English competence. Based on such findings, EFTD is recommended to use as a training materials for FTD who particularly domicile in YogyakartaÂ