The Development of Grammar Teaching Material Using Error and Contrastive Analysis (A Linguistic Approach in Foreign Language Teaching)

The purpose of this study was to develop an English grammar teaching material for Indonesian learner with a linguistics approach consisting of error and contrastive analysis. This was a research and development study which applied five steps: 1) analysis, 2) design, 3) development, 4) implementation and 5) evaluation. Some experts were involved in validating the teaching material before implemented to the participants. The research data were the student's test scores in translation and writing test. The teaching materials were delivered during six meetings. Data technique analysis was the paired sample t-test which compared pre-test and post-test score. The results showed that student's score in translation and writing test increased significantly. There were three advantages of this teaching material which had triggered student's academic performance, namely easy to learn, composed based on the student's needs, and implementing linguistics theory.