3. After all reading passages are evaluated by analyzing the characteristic of each genre, the researcher determines the genres of the reading passages and
compare them to the genres in the school based curriculum 4. The evaluated data are interpreted
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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS
A. The Data Description of English in Focus Textbook
The object of this research is the reading passages of a textbook used in SMPN 1 Gunungputri. The title of this textbook is English in Focus written by
Artono Wardiman, Masduki B. Jahur, and M. Sukirman Djusma. It is published by Puskurbuk, National Education Department in 2008 to be used for third grade
Grade IX of Junior High School. Because it is published by the National Education Department, the textbook is signed as an Electronic School Book
BSE. It means that the government has bought the copyright of the textbook from the first publisher to be downloaded by all English teachers.
The textbook is developed based on the curriculum used, that is School- Based Curriculum KTSP. Therefore, the textbook is one of the textbooks which
are recommended by the government to be used for teaching and learning process for third grade of Junior High School.
This textbook consists of 5 chapters and it has 152 pages. Each chapter has every language skills; those are listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Language component is also presented in the textbook to be taught such as pronunciation and grammar. In the end of the semester, the textbook has the
review of what has been learned by giving exercise to evaluate the student’s mastery of the materials. In this textbook, there are 11 reading passages which are
divided into 4 procedure texts, 5 report texts, and 2 narrative texts. Chapter 1 and 3 presents the procedure text, chapter 2 and 5 presents the report text, and chapter
4 presents the narrative text. There are three genres that have to be learned by the students in the third
grade of Junior High School and its genre has each characteristics. According to School-Based Curriculum the three genres are Procedure, Report, and Narrative.
