A Review of Public Speaking Coursebook: A Product of English Language Center Curriculum Research and Development

English Language Center in Universitas Muhammadiyah Ponorogo is currently conducting a research and development of designing the best curriculum that correlates with students level and the university’s pedagogical objectives. A previous internal research results imply that the Language Center should focus on two main courses: Standardized Test of Academic English Proficiency Test development and Public Speaking course project. Aligning to the prior research on Public Speaking curriculum development [1]–[3], this present study aims to deliver a final product of material development that is specifically designed for the first year students in Universitas Muhammadiyah Ponorogo. Document-based observation and analysis of Public Speaking’s lesson plan is utilized as the key instrument of this research. Eight chapters of final product are presented. Furtermore, findings and discussion of the study are described qualitatively.