117 is invaluable in offering, among other things, guidelines on how to make the best
use of the course, detailed plans for teaching each unit and key to exercises” p. 112. In other words, teachers’ book has its importance to guide and to provide
teachers some insight and instruction to conduct effective teaching. Unfortunately this textbook only consists of the textbook itself. Because of the unavailability of
the teachers’ book, all the five criteria in the teachers’ books aspect were not fulfilled.
The answer key included in this textbook may bring a problem. The answer key can help the students to conduct individual learning, but on the other
hand, the students can just merely copy and write the answer of the exercises without learning anything. Therefore, the availability of a teachers’ book will be
very beneficial. The answer key should be included only in teachers’ book so that the students will not just write down the answer when they are doing the exercises
in their textbook.
8. Description of Practical Considerations Aspect
These textbook fulfilled three out of four criteria of practical consideration
evaluation. The description was as follows. a.
Strengths
Firstly, this textbook represents good value or money. Even if the government has made a regulation that states each school cannot force the
students to buy a certain textbook, the presence of a textbook is beneficial as a source of materials for teachers and as a tool of learning for students. The
available English textbooks in the bookstore such as Look Ahead, Real English,
118 English Zone, etc. cost about Rp 30.000,00 until Rp 60.000,00. Interlanguage as
the electronic English textbook provided by the government is free to be accessed and downloaded. Additionally, it is mentioned on its cover that the highest price
for the printed version is Rp 12.947,00. This price is set by the government. Even if the hard copy version is not available, this textbook can be printed, and with
some arrangement it only costs about Rp 16.000,00. Thus, this textbook actually represents a good value or money.
Figure 4.29 The Maximum Price Set By the Government
Since this textbook can be downloaded freely from government websites, it can be obtained easily. If the teachers are not familiar with such kind of
websites, they can just type Buku Sekolah Elektronik on Google. Then, the teachers will find the link to go the websites. Moreover, the file of this textbook is
only 5.80 MB. It can be copied easily and then saved to a flashdisk without requiring any big space. Besides, the hard copy of this textbook is now available
in book stores. The next fulfilled criterion was about practical consideration. Since there
is no any recorded listening material, this textbook can be used without particular equipments such as tape recorder or video player. All the activities on the
119 textbook can be done in the classroom. Therefore the teaching learning activities
do not have to be conducted in a language laboratory or listening centre.
b. Weaknesses
Unfortunately, there was a criterion that was unfulfilled in this aspect. The criterion was whether the textbook is attractive in appearance or not. This
textbook is not attractive in appearance. The illustration is minimalist and the pictures are not really colorful. This textbook probably can be more interesting if
it is provided not in grey scale but in full-colored format.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
This chapter provides conclusions and suggestions of this research. The suggestions are given to English teachers, the writers of English textbooks and the
future researchers. It is hoped that the conclusions and suggestions can be beneficial for all the readers.
A. Conclusions
This research was content analysis research which analysed the content of Interlanguage: English for Senior High School Students XI Science and Social
Study Programme. This research was aimed to evaluate the content of the textbook based on the Cunningsworth’s textbook evaluation checklist 1995.
Conclusions were made based on the result of the analysis and presented in the following elaboration.
Broadly speaking, this textbook did not fulfil the criteria of good textbook. The quality of this textbook was categorized as fair fulfilment since the result of
this research showed that the percentage of overall evaluation of the textbook was 63.92. Specifically, the percentage of the fulfilment in aims and approaches
aspect was 66.67. In design and organization aspect the percentage of criteria fulfilment was 57.14. In language content aspect, this textbook fulfilled all the
criteria, and therefore achieved 100 percentage of criteria fulfilment. The percentage of skill aspect was 61.11. The percentage of criteria fulfilment for
the topic aspect was 71.43.
