Multimedia Based Teaching Materials for Sociolinguistics Course: A Research and Development Project (First Stage)

It is believed that good teaching materials are the ones derived from sufficient need analysis, environment analysis, and supported by the dynamic development of knowledge and technology. This study aims to develop multimedia based teaching materials for Sociolinguistics course of the English Teaching Programs. Three research stages were conducted to complete the study; 1) definition stage, which includes need and environment analysis; 2) development stage, which includes syllabus, teaching steps, teaching materials and media, and teaching evaluation; and 3) evaluation stage, which includes expert's commentary, partial try out, and experiment. The design of this study was adjusted with each stage of the research where a survey was done in the first stage. In the definition stage, data on need analysis and materials' relevance were collected. The need analysis shows that there is a gap between the materials being taught and the ones needed by the students. Similarly, the fitness analysis shows that the existing teaching materials are irrelevant to the students' practical learning needs. Such gap needs a bridge in a form of a corresponding new teaching and learning model to help students in learning Sociolinguistics. Due to some practical requirements and limitations related to the conference event, this paper only presents the first stage of the study. The later stages are to be discussed in different articles and to be presented in other conferences.