Erna Iftanti,The Implementation of A Theory-Based Practice Method 87 THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A THEORY-BASED PRACTICE METHOD IN TEACHING ENGLISH MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT (EMD) COURSE FOR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH PROGRAM OF IAIN TULUNGAGUNG Erna Iftanti IAIN Tulungagung, East Java ernataufic@yahoo.com Abstract: An English teacher should be able to develop English instructional materials which are more culturally appropriate to his students’ cultural context. This is important to help them learn English in their own areas in terms of either the context or the content of instruction which then bring about producing the joy of learning English. Therefore, this paper discusses about my journey of implementing a theory-based practice method to teach students of teacher training education of English Program of IAIN Tulungagung in developing English Instructional Materials. In implementing this method I explained some theories related to developing English instructional materials and the students were guided to do need analysis and to practice developing the materials of English instruction. With this method the students focus on practicing English materials development based on the theories taught. The results of this research indicate that the students have rich learning experiences in developing instructional English materials in accordance to their own selected level of education compared to using fully theory based method to teach English Material Development (EMD). Key words: Theory Based Practice Method; EMD I believe that the success of teaching and learning English is under the responsibility of parents, students, governments, and teachers as well. A teacher teaching English at any level of education should not only capable of teaching but he/she should also be skillful in selecting and even developing English instructional materials appropriate to their students. Therefore, students of teacher training education should be trained to be able to select and to develop teaching materials. Hence, I, the one responsible to teach English Materials Development (hereafter EMD) in English Program of Islamic State Institute of Tulungagung (IAIN Tulungagung) have been thinking on how to teach this course effectively, so that my students have sufficient capability of developing EMD suitable for teaching English attractive arousing to their students. brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by E-Journal IAIN Tulungagung