Development of Reading Module Based on Ecolinguistic Discourse

Abstract

Ecological awareness, labelled with green, has been a familiar icon for institutions and businesses around the world. Higher education, especially Polytechnic serving as a vocational institution preparing students for workplace, needs efforts to equip its graduates with ecological awareness and knowledge. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to develop reading module supporting for such a goal by inserting ecological aspects in reading materials. The result of initially questionnaire about the importance and urgency of this module, taken from English lecturers in Bali State Polytechnic, shows that 94,4% respondents agree and very agree. Following 10 steps required by Research &Development, this reading module is ready to be implemented in English classes.Module consists of four components: ecological text, comprehensive questions, exploration/problem solving and vocabulary. After having tried out in two compared two classes, the result of the experimental group is better than the controlled one. The next step is to evaluate and improve it by trying out in wider users.