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Climate Change Impacts Our Planet Exposition Reading Materials Based On Climate Change

Harmer (2007) states that reading is useful for language acquisition. It provided that students more or less understand what they read, the more they read, the better they get at it. Reading is also a process of searching and comprehending some information that is available in the reading material. There are some reading text types or genres of the text of English subject taught to students. Exposition text is one of the genres that is studied by Senior High School students. Hasani (2005) mentions that exposition is a form of writing that is often used in conveying scientific descriptions but does not try to influence the opinion of the reader. In relation with Minister of Education and Culture (2017) states that an English textbook with the material about climate change has existed, and it talks about analytic exposition text in the eleventh grade. The students are able to comprehend the content of reading texts taught and enhance their proficiency in reading. Based on the students'''' needs, the materials dealing with climate change presented in the exposition text can promote the students in learning. They can gain more understanding of the content since it is related to their daily life, and develop and practice the students'''' skills related to their field of study. So, it is needed to develop reading materials dealing with climate change as novelty research. Moreover, the use of climate change-based material is highly recommended by UNESCO, the number of climate change based materials is still limited in Indonesia, even many schools still lack English text books containing climate change material. The product was the reading materials based on climate change and provided with some questions related to reading comprehension aspects that will be based on certain cognitive levels.

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