An Analysis of Textbook Used for Teaching Short Functional Text Novi Aprilianti Reg. Number 117010040

Novi Aprilianti dan Hj. Kimtafsirah Mulyana dan Fegy Lestari (2016) An Analysis of Textbook Used for Teaching Short Functional Text Novi Aprilianti Reg. Number 117010040. Skripsi(S1) thesis, Sastra Inggris.

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This research paper is entitled “An Analysis of Textbook Used for Teaching Short Functional Text”. This study was intended to find out how relevant were English in Focus and English on Sky 2 compared to syllabus based on the School-Based Curriculum and to find out the advantages and the disadvantages of the textbooks used for teaching short functional text implemented in SMPN 6 Cimahi. The writer employed qualitative method and applied descriptive research. The data gained through document analysis. The writer used the instrument of the study covering the list of questions designed based on the textbooks implemented in SMPN 6 Cimahi. The result of the data analysis showed that in the fourth semester, English in Focus gained 75% in developing the basic competences stated in the syllabus, while English on Sky 2 gained 50%. The percentage in providing the short functional text suggested by the syllabus, English in Focus was 20% and English on Sky 2 was 0%. English in Focus provided four kinds of short functional texts. In this textbook, all sentences of each text in the short functional texts were related to each other and coherent, and they referred to one object. Every text in the short functional texts used the appropriate grammar, except passive voice. The theme of some short functional texts did not fit students’ background. English in Focus did not explain the definition and purpose of the provided short functional texts. English on Sky 2 provided two kinds of short functional texts. It explained the definition, purpose, and example of the provided short functional texts. Those two kinds of short functional texts fit students’ background, but not all students of Indonesia have been familiar with them. It can be concluded that based on basic competences developed in the textbook, English in Focus is good, while English on Sky 2 is fairly good. In providing short functional text suggested by the syllabus, both of the textbooks are very bad. In English in Focus, all of the short functional texts require good discourses and they are written in appropriate grammar, except passive voice. The textbook entitled English in Focus provides some materials of short functional texts which do not fit students’ background and it also does not explain the definition and purpose of the provided short functional texts. English on Sky 2 provides two kinds of short functional texts which fit students’ background, but not all students are familiar with those kinds of short functional texts. English on Sky 2 gives the explanation about the definition, purpose, and example of the provided short functional texts. Key words: Textbook, Short Functional Text, Textbook Analysis.

Item Type:	Thesis (Skripsi(S1))
Subjects:	S1-Skripsi
Divisions:	Fakultas Seni dan Sastra > Sastra Inggris 2015
Depositing User:	oman rohman
Date Deposited:	11 Oct 2016 18:34
Last Modified:	11 Oct 2016 18:34
URI:	http://repository.unpas.ac.id/id/eprint/13736

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