Developing Interactive Multimedia for Teaching Speaking Descriptive Text to Culinary Program Students

The objective of this research was to develop interactive multimedia for teaching speaking descriptive text to tenth-grader students of the culinary program. This research was conducted by using the research and development (R & D) approach adapted and modified from Borg and Gall. The procedures were conducting needs analysis, designing the program, validating to experts, revising, and producing the final product. The subjects of the research were thirty-five students in the culinary study program. The instruments for collecting the data were questionnaires (a needs analysis questionnaire and expert judgment questionnaires). The results of the data collection were analyzed quantitatively by using descriptive statistics. The result of this study was an interactive multimedia for teaching speaking descriptive texts to the tenth grader students in one of the vocational schools in Medan. The findings of this study showed that the interactive multimedia for teaching speaking descriptive texts has met good characteristics. It was indicated by the mean score of 93.3% for the content aspect, 93% for the media aspect, and 90% for the interactivity aspect based on expert judgments. [For the full proceedings, see ED652261.]