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1. The Compatibility of Materials with Core Competence and Basic Competence
a. Completeness
The basic competence for this chapter is for student to be able to understand and comprehend the message in a song. The kinds of song vocabulary
in this chapter are a little complex. Most of the sentence used as the material is in a form of metaphor in a lyric as shown in page 104. Task on understanding the
message of the song are only included in page 106.
b. In Depth
The first exercise in page 101 requires students to write down the last word of each line in the lyric, followed by task to find the words that rhyme with
the given listed words. Most of the exercises are to find the meaning of several words in page 105 and 107, and followed by reasons of liking certain singer
which is unrelated to the basic competence expected to be achieved for this chapter.
2. The Accuracy of Materials a. Social Functions
Social function expected to be included in a text are, interpersonal, transactional or functional communication, but there is little element of social
function, in terms of transactional communication, mostly are not related to student’s daily lives.There is only one exercise that requires students to guess a
song in a group work in page 109.
b. Element and structure of meaning
The element and structure of meaning is not very systematic. At the beginning, the lists of words are simple and are meant for student to find its
meaning, but later followed by task to find out the meaning of a song which is made of complex words in form of phrase and metaphor. This form of vocabulary
is complex for the level of first year junior high school students.
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c. Linguistic Features
There are no communicative texts in this chapter that can guide to develop communication skills with acceptable and accurate language quality. The
language features are too complicated for student’s context, as they are expected to understand lyrics, in the form of metaphorical sentences.
3. Supporting Materials a. Relevance
The source taken for the chapter is a popular song in the 90’s. The lyric of this song have poetic meaning and indirect message, thus, making it irrelevant for
the material of this chapter as students will have difficulty in relating the meaning of the lyrics with their daily lives.
b. Life skills Development
There is no element of life skill development in this chapter, as no component of personal, social, academic or vocational skill can be found in this
chapter.
c. Diversity Insight
The texts and exercises in this chapter do not include any cultural elements
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Table 4.7 Feasibility of Content Frequency Tables
Sub component Items
Score 1
2 3
4
The compatibility with core competence and basic
competence Completeness
1 5
In Depth 1
5
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