THE ENGLISH TEACHING MATERIAL FOR THE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING STUDY PROGRAM BASED ON THE STUDENTS’ NEED

The purpose of this research was to know skill-based needs of students' English
teaching materials and to construct the english syllabus for the electrical
engineering study program based on student‟s need. The population of this
research was Faculty of Engineering and the sample taken in this research was
in Electrical Engineering Study Program with vary of gradual semester,second
semester, fourth semester, sixth semester and eight semester. Thus in
stakeholder also involved in this research in order to fill secondary data. The
research was conducted using descriptive quantitative method through
triangulation data; questionnaires, interview and documentation. The data
analyzed processed by using Statistical Program for Social Science (SPSS). The
result presented in tabulation data followed by description for each data. The
result can be shown as follows : a) the sequence of skill demanded by students
were speaking, writing, listening and reading. The highly needed topic chosen by
the students was speaking. It is evident from the results of surveys, stakeholder
and student interviews.b) the syllabus theme was content-based syllabus. The
themes were picked by rating all of the items in the questionnaire for each skill
and were highly needed by the students. Based on the detailed explanation
above, the conclusion can be drawn that speaking was a highly demanded skill
chosen by students and the syllabus of the undergraduate electrical engineering
students based on their needs.
Keywords: Students’ Need, Teaching Materials, Electrical Engineering