An analysis on the characteristics of good reading materials in textbook “Bahasa Inggris” for grade X Senior High School Students

Listia, Winda Rizki (2021) An analysis on the characteristics of good reading materials in textbook “Bahasa Inggris” for grade X Senior High School Students. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research describes about how the quality of reading materials in the textbook “Bahasa Inggris” for grade X students of Senior High School. As known that good quality textbooks are needed to make students easy to learn English according to their level. By using the textbooks that have good quality, students can further improve their English language productivity. The purpose of this research is to describe whether the reading materials in the textbook "Bahasa Inggris" for grade X of Senior High School meets the good materials characteristics based on Greeny & Petty‟s statement. The book was written by Utami Widiati, Zuliati Rohmah, & Furaidah and published by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia. This research is expected to provide insight into the understanding of the quality of reading materials. This research was designed as a documentary analysis in the form of a descriptive qualitative research where the result was described in the form of words, not statistical calculations. This study used the content analysis method as the appropriate approach, namely analyzing books and describing the findings. Data were collected from reading materials in textbooks. As instrumental tools, checklists were used during research analysis. The results showed that the criteria in characteristics of good materials proposed by Greeny & Petty that are more fulfilled in the textbook are interested, illustrative, linguistic aspects, stimulative, clear concept, and appreciate the personal differences, that is 12% for each criterion. Most of the reading materials in the textbook "Bahasa Inggris" for grade X students of Senior High Schools was in accordance with the characteristic for quality English textbooks based on Greeny & Petty‟s statement, it gains 83,33%. So, the textbook “Bahasa Inggris” for grade X students of Senior High School is categorized in good quality of English textbook.

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