Character building in junior high school english language teksbooks a content analysis / Ida Puji Lestari - Repositori Universitas Negeri Malang

Character building in junior high school english language teksbooks a content analysis / Ida Puji Lestari

Lestari, Ida Puji (2012) Character building in junior high school english language teksbooks a content analysis / Ida Puji Lestari. Masters thesis, Universitas Negeri Malang.

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Abstract

Thesis. Graduate Program in English Language Education State University of Malang. Advisors (I) Prof. Dra. Hj. Kasihani K.E.S. M.A. Ph.D. (II) Dr. Enny Irawati M.Pd. Key words content analysis English textbook character building. This study was conducted to see whether the topics in the two textbooks reflect the aspects of the character building stated in the national character and cultural education (PBKB) 2010. More specifically the study aimed to analyze whether the reading and texts and activities in the textbooks reflect the eighteen character building values. The study is limited to analyze the reading texts and activities in the English textbooks that represent character building values as source of data. The textbooks used were entitled Bahasa Inggris for Junior High School Year Seven International Standard School and Bahasa Inggris for Junior High School Year Eight International Standard School. Therefore this study focuses on topics the reading texts and activities found in the textbook because the texts are provided in each unit. The research design of this study is descriptive-qualitative content analysis. The main instrument is the researcher because she collected data analyzed data and drew conclusion by using a table as instrument with some indicators to identify the reading texts and activities reflected character building values. There were four steps of collecting data i.e. 1) writing down the topics reading texts and activities of the units in the textbooks for grade seven and eight used by SMPN 1 Malang (2) selecting the topics reading texts and activities in the textbooks used in SMPN 1 Malang (3) analyzing the topics reading texts and activities in the textbooks by using the instruments that consist of some indicators (4) drawing conclusion based on the result of the findings and discussion. This study yielded three findings. First each unit in the textbooks actually has already reflects character building values implicitly. Second it is found that not all units in the two textbooks provide reading texts so that the writer must modify rearrange the existed texts to reflect character building values. Besides the researchers also modified and inserted the character building values in the existed reading text found in some of units in the two English textbooks for international standardized junior high school SMPN 1 Malang. Third the two English textbooks do not cover all of the eighteen values of character building values that reflected from the topics of unit and reading texts the reading texts and activities in each unit of the two textbooks. The first textbook for the seventh grade of junior high school students cover twelve values from the eighteen values of character building. Meanwhile the second textbook for the eighth grade of junior high school students covers eight values from the eighteen values of character building. Consequently the two textbooks published by National Education Department need to be revised.

Item Type: Thesis (Masters)
Subjects: L Education > L Education (General)
Divisions: Fakultas Sastra (FS) > Departemen Sastra Inggris (ING) > S2 Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User: Users 2 not found.
Date Deposited: 21 Jun 2012 04:29
Last Modified: 09 Sep 2012 03:00
URI: http://repository.um.ac.id/id/eprint/58615

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