The Training on Developing Teaching Materials for German Language Teachers in Ambon

Abstract

The results of the first phase of this study indicate that the low results of the German Language teacher competency test (UKG) in Ambon City. This is caused by the material scope and level of difficulty of the material UKG much above average abilities German language teacher. In addition the frequency of teacher participation in training courses or German language is very low though has been teaching for years. The essence of the findings of previous studies is that the German language teacher in Ambon city still has a low linguistic competence, in some extreme cases there are teachers at level A1 and A2. The reason why can be clearly be seen from the low frequency of teachers' involvement in the activities of self-development, both individually and collectively through training and courses. On the basis of these findings there should be training for German language teachers. It required training materials as a means of supporting the implementation of the German language teacher training. This research aims to develop teaching materials training includes listening skills, speaking, reading and writing and supported by grammatical components at A2 level.
Writing materials this training is based on the procedure of research and development developed by Plomp in Ratumanan et al (2013), that phase, namely (1) preliminary investigation, (2) design, (3) realization / construction, (4) test, evaluation , and revision, and (5) implementation. First to the third phase were implemented in the first phase of the research so that this phase followed by a phase of testing and revision of the well based on the observation and note validator to get the final product. The end product of this study showed that the level of training teaching materials A2 German language teachers include reading and listening skills, speaking and writing. The development of teaching materials have been fulfil several factors such as validity, practicality, and effectiveness, and has fulfilled the principles of development of teaching materials, namely the principles of relevance, consistency principle, the principle of material sufficiency, the principle of conformity with the material in trainees maturity and principles of legibility. Thus the final product of this study declared eligible to be used as teaching materials for German language teacher training in the city of Ambon, even by students who are preparing to take a test at A2 level.