Empowering Students’ Creativity in Creating Students’ Worksheets Using Authentic Materials

This paper aims to describe the ability of students in creating and developing students’ worksheets using authentic materials. Creating and developing students’ worksheets are the final project of those joining English Language Teaching Materials Developments (ELTMDev) class in English Education Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty in Universitas Sebelas Maret of Surakarta. Not only, should the – would be – teachers learn how to be good teachers, but they also learn how to create and develop good students worksheets suit their students need. This study employs classroom action research. Subjects are ELTMDev students in English Education Department UNS. The findings reveal that: 1) the students’ ability in creating and developing students’ worksheets increases; 2) the students’ understanding in employing authentic materials when creating and developing students’ worksheets improves