Functional English Design for Domestic Migrant Workers

This paper aimed at: (1) describing the content of Functional English Design (FED) materials and (2) describing the
appropriateness of the FEDas the English training materials for the migrant workers' candidates (MWC). This study
used ADDIE (Analysing, Designing, Developing, Implementing and Evaluating) model involving totally 200 MWC
in the 4 PPTKIS (namely authorized private boards in which duties serves the Indonesian workers' placement and
protection abroad).The data were taken from the documentation, the trainees‟ English training achievements using the
FED and peer-debriefing. The gathered data was analyzed using: Content Analysis and Mean-difference computation
of the trainees' test results descriptively. This study found: (1) the content of the FEDthat developed“Imparting and
seeking factual information” with “Minimum–adequate language Functions” was matched with the trainees needs and
(2) the FED was appropriate to use as an alternative English materials since it was designed based on the result of
needs analysis beside the test result in significant improvement i.e. the Mean Difference of the oral pre and post-test
was 2.25 within the scoring standard scale of 0-10, while the Md of the written pre-post-test was 13.35 within the
scoring standard scale of 0-100. Besides, the peers debriefing stated that the FED was recommended for use in the 4
investigated PPTKIS.