The appropriateness of english for specific purpose material development at Civil Aviation Safety and Engineering Academy of Surabaya

Material development is the way the teacher develops the material (any media or text) which is suitable with students’ need, goal and subject in order to facilitate better learning. Considering the importance of students’ need in material development, this research takes the focus of the appropriateness of materials in Civil Aviation Safety and Engineering of Surabaya to students’ need. This research is conducted at Civil Aviation Safety and Engineering of Surabaya. This academy used English for Specific Purpose (ESP) because the teaching learning English is focus on specific board. That board is aviation. The students learn English focus on English in aviation. In ESP, a need analysis helps the teacher to identify the key features of the local context that must be addressed by the materials. Before developing material, the teacher has to consider the students’ need. This research analysed material that teacher developed whether appropriate with students’ need or not. This research is conducted using qualitative descriptive method. The researcher surveyed 22 students and interviewed the teacher of Air Traffic Controller (ATC) at Civil Aviation Safety and Engineering of Surabaya. This study analysed material that is used by the teacher in teaching learning English. The result shows that students of ATC considered that they learn ESP and they learn English for their board. Specifically, there were 86.36% of respondents argued that their goal of learning English is to master spoken and written English for job. For the material, the teacher selected Youtube video and news, adopted textbook “Aviation English” and created module. Analysis of these materials and students’ need shows that the materials used by the teacher meet students’ need.