Literature for English Learning Materials in Muhammadiyah Elementary Schools: An Innovation in Indonesia

Abstract

This article aims to examine the use of literature in the form of learning materials in English classroom in Muhammadiyah elementary school. Muhammadiyah as one kind of Islamic-based schools in Indonesia have different needs from other kinds of schools. One of the different necessities here is this school needs something that can infuse and integrate the Islamic doctrine in the form of values and characters in the learning process. Literature may answer the needs of this school. Moreover, this paper carries on the descriptive quantitative research which is a partial part of research and development design. The result of this research is the students gave 3.35 and 3.37 score for the quality of the product which means very good or they were strongly agree that the literature-based English material is appropriate for them. The teacher also have 3.5 score, it means strongly agree or very good. These scores proved that literature in English materials is appropriate for English learning in the Muhammadiyah elementary schools. The conclusion is the literature-based of English materials for Muhammadiyah elementary schools could be used to create a better learning process for English classroom. Moreover, it also answer the needs of the Muhammadiyah schools in the term of English learning.