The secretary students of the college in which this research conducted use Buku Pegangan Kuliah (BPK) as learning resource of English subject. Nevertheless, according to the result of analysis, the book does not cover the criteria of a good book yet that are analyzed from seven aspects including objective, content, language skill, task, topic, methodology, and presentation. The materials which are presented in the book refer to general English and tend to emphasize on grammar. However, the secretary students need specific English material that focuses on the field. This study is aimed to (1) analyze the relevancy of the existing English textbook with the students’ need; (2) describe the development of task-based English module for secretary department; (3) describe the validity of the module. This study is a research and development, which the main step is conducted in two ways. First, exploration includes library research and field research. Second, development includes product specification planning, product design, expert validation, and tryout. The specific English module is validated by an expert of teaching and learning English and an expert of secretary and office administration. The findings of the study are: (1) the materials of the existing book does not fulfill the secretary students’ need yet; (2) designing task based English module for secretary students based on the data from need analysis; (3) the result of module validation from the two experts obtains 87%, it belongs to valid and feasible to be implemented in the teaching and learning. Keywords: R n D, ESP, English for secretary, need analysis, task based learning

The aims of this research are to (1) describe the quality of the existing English textbook used by the secretary students of the college in the teaching and learning; (2) explain the relevancy between the materials presented in the English textbook with the secretary students' need. The data were collected through some techniques, including analysis of the existing English textbook, interviews with the students and lecturers and distributing questionnaire to the students. The data collected were analyzed by using the model of Miles and Huberman, including data reduction, data display, and verifying conclusions [1]. The results of the research analysis are first the quality of the existing English textbook used by the secretary students does not represent the criteria of good a textbook that are adapted from Cunningsworth [2]. Second, the materials presented are categorized as general English; meanwhile, the secretary students need English lessons that focus on a specific field.