Syllabus, Instructional Analysis and GBPP

English subject is one of some compulsory subjects in ITS, which have to be undertaken
by the S1 (undergraduate level) students and D3 (diploma).

Below is the syllabus, instructional analysis and GBPP of the English subject.

A. Learning Objective:

1. The students are able to understand several concepts of reading strategies on

science and technology texts.
2. The students are able to understand the content and context of texts/readings by
implementing the introduced reading strategies. It is expected that they can both
understand the given materials/readings and materials/readings that they select by
their own, materials/readings that they may find during their first or second
semester study in their own departments.
3. The students are capable to understand the grammar concept which becomes the
convention of readings/texts structure.
4. They are able to understand vocabulary that they find in the text on science and
technology.

B. Competency:

It is expected that the students are able to acquire comprehensive and integrative
competency on reading, which is indicated by being able to understand, interpret, retell,
develop the idea and concept on science and technology. This reading competency will be
supported by competency in the fundamental areas of vocabulary, grammar, writing and
speaking in class.
Those basic areas are:

1. Reading Competency:

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 The students are able to understand, interpret, retell the essence of the text on
science and technology by implementing the given reading strategies.

2. Grammar Competency:

The students are capable to understand the concept of grammar, identify the
correct form of grammar and implement the grammar in sentence, identify the
correct grammar in the text, and implement the correct grammar in their writing.

3. Vocabulary Competency:

The students are able to draw the meaning of specialized vocabulary in science
and technology by understanding the context within sentence level, paragraph
level and essay level as well as by knowing the meaning from the structure of the
vocabulary (word), such as the word ending, prefix, suffix.

5. Writing Competency:

The students are able to express their interpretation on text, by filling the gap in
guided composition, develop their idea on the content of the text through
paragraph or essay writing.

6. Speaking Competency:

The students are able to retell the content of the text and their writing in class. The
students participate actively in the classroom discussion.

Those competencies are divided into sub-competency below:

1. Understanding and identifying specific information through scanning, C1, C2, A1, P1
2. Understanding the content of the text by questioning and evaluating text, C2, C4, C6, A1, A3, P1

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3. Understanding the characteristic of effective summary and are able to make summary based on the
examples, C2, A2, P3
4. identifying the structure of text, formulating the structure of text based on the text purpose, and
writing based on the example, C1,C3, A4, P4.
5. Connecting the content and context of the text to the students’ background knowledge, self
experience, and connecting one text to other text, C3, C4, A3, A4, P3
6. Identifying the main idea of the text through skimming and locating main idea, C1, A1, A3, P1, P3
7. Identifying, explaining, formulating and developing sentence with NClause, AdjClause, AdvClause,
C1, C2, A4, P3.
8. Finding the key words and jargon in the text, defining the key words and jargon in the text, and
writing those sentences in the new context, C1, C3, C4, A5, P4.
9. Completing the missing words/information in the text and connecting the information from one text to
other texts, C3, A4, P4.
10. Identifying grammar in the text, are able to explain the characteristics of each grammar, C1, C2, A2,
P1.
11. Writing views expression, responding to the text and presenting argument, C6, A4, P5.
12. Underlining contexts (clues) and listing the indication of the definition of the vocabulary in sentence
and making sentences by using those vocabularies, C2, A3, P3.
13. Comparing one context to the other contexts from the dimensions of the organizations of the text and
the purpose of the text, C6, A5, P3
14. Understanding the concept of fact and opinion and identifying/differing fact from opinion, C2, A2,
P1.
15. Identifying, selecting, considering/weighing and concluding elements/parts of grammar and
selecting which grammar part/element is required to understand the given texts C6, A5, P5

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 ORGANISASI MATERI

Locating specific Understanding the text Understanding text by Understanding text by

information through through observing its finding/locating the differing fact from
scanning pattern-comparison main idea opinion

Extracting main points of Understanding text Understanding text

texts through summarizing through listing and through cause effect
sequencing

Integrative & Comprehensive reading skill, in which the

learners are capable of understanding text, grammar and
developing essay (writing)

The learners are able The students are able to Finding the meaning of
to fill the blank space understand and word related to science
with correct verbs implement AdjClause, and technology from the
Noun clause text

The students are able to

The learners are able identify and implement Finding the synonym of
to fill the blank with conditional and passive- particular terminology
correct terminology active sentences

The students are able to

The learners are able Finding the meaning of
understand the rule of
to write effective words by observing the
subject-verb agreement
paragraph root/ending meaning
and implement it.

The students are able The students are Finding the meaning of
to write an essay understand and implement terminology based on
gerund and infinitive the context

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SYLLABUS
COURSE : ENGLISH FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
CODE : IG091308
CREDIT :2
COMPETENCIES :
1. The students are able to understand and implement the concept of reading strategy on science and
technology texts in English language.
2. The students are able to retell or rewrite the substance of text, capable to develop ideas or concepts that they
read from the text, and become a critical reader who are able to evaluate the reliability, validity and clarity
of the text.
3. The students are able to understand vocabulary which is related to science and technology which they
encounter during their study.
4. The students are able to understand the concept of grammar which becomes the convention/rules of
sentence and word formation in text on science and technology.

No Material Teaching-learning Time allocation Target competencies Outcome Percentage

activity indicator

1 Introducing concept on: - Scanning exercise 30’ - The students are able to  Speed and 10%
Scanning specific information - Discussion effectively locate the correctness in
- Question-answer specific information in the locating and finding
Reading 1: - Tutorial text information in the
- Text & Exercises 70’ - The students are able to text
Sub skills: answer the given exercises
- Writing, grammar, vocabulary,
Speaking

Introducing concept on: - skimming exercise 30’ - The students are able to  Effectiveness and 10%
2 Skimming general topic - Discussion effectively find the general correctness in
- Question-answer topic of the text finding/searching
- Tutorial 70’ the general topic

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 Reading 2:
- Text & Exercises
Sub skills:
- Writing, grammar, vocabulary,
Speaking

Introducing concept on:

3 Previewing - previewing exercise 30’ - The students are able to -The students’ activeness 10%
- discussion survey text before reading and accuracy in
- question-answer - The students are able to predicting the content of
Reading 3: - tutorial identify the text feature, the text by observing
- Text & Exercises 70’ table of content, heading, text feature, figure, table
Sub skills: subheading, title, picture of content, heading,
- Writing, grammar, vocabulary, subheading, title and
Speaking picture

Introducing concept on:

Questioning 30’ 10%
- questioning exercise - The students are able to
4  The students’
Reading 4: - discussion express questions that they activeness to express
- Text & Exercises - question-answer 70’ have when they read the questions that they
Sub skills: - tutorial text. have
- Writing, grammar, vocabulary,
 The students are able
Speaking
to find the answers for
their own questions
 The students are able
to evaluate the texts

Introducing concept on:

5 Locating main idea 30’ -The students are able to find - correctness to find 10%
- locating main idea main idea in the text main idea in the text
Reading 4: exercise
- Text & Exercises - discussion
Sub skills: - Question answer
- Writing, grammar, vocabulary, - tutorial
Speaking 70’

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6 Introducing concept on: 30’ 10%
Inferring & Predicting - Inferring & - The students are able to - active participation in
Predicting exercise guess the content of the text anticipating the content
- discussion by activating their of the text
Reading 6: - Question answer background knowledge
- Text & Exercises - tutorial
Sub skills: 70’
- Writing, grammar, vocabulary,
Speaking
Introducing concept on:
7-10 Organization of the text: 20%
- time order
- comparison-contrast 30’  Accuracy in
- cause effect - Identifying the identifying the
- sequence organization of the - The students are able to
guess the content of the text structure of the text
text exercise  The students are able
- discussion by activating their schema
to mention the
Reading 7-10: - Question answer characteristics of each
- Text & Exercises - Tutorial 70’ organization of texts
Sub skills:
- Writing, grammar, vocabulary,
Speaking

-The students are able to find - The students’ active

11-13 Introducing concept on: - connecting exercise 30’ connection between their participation in 20%
Connecting : - discussion experience and the text connecting their
- Question answer - The students are able to find experience to the text
-self to text - tutorial connection between one -The students’ active
-text to text text to another text participation in
-text to world - the students are able to connecting one text to
connect the world and the the other texts
Reading 11-13: 70’ text - The students’ active
- Text & Exercises participation in
Sub skills: connecting one text to

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 - Writing, grammar, vocabulary, the other texts
Speaking

Introducing concept on:

14-15 Summarizing 30’ - The students are able to --Summary that the 20%
understand the concept of students produce fulfills
- summarizing exercise summarizing the characteristics of
Reading 14-15: - discussion - The students are able to effective summary
- Text & Exercises - Question answer 70’ summarize short paragraph
Sub skills: - tutorial - The students are able to
- Writing, grammar, vocabulary, summarize long text
Speaking

Introducing concept on: - synthesizing exercise 30’  The students’ critical 10%
16 Synthesizing - discussion thinking to relate texts
- Question answer - The students are able to  The students’ capacity
- tutorial understand some texts in to fill gap which
Reading 14-15: 70’ similar topics emerge from reading,
- Text & Exercises - The students are able to understanding, and
Sub skills: Draw a link between two comparing
- Writing, grammar, vocabulary, texts or among texts information from
Speaking - The students are able to different texts
connect several texts