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3. The readers and the future researchers
Especially for those who are eager to conduct further research about this study, hopefully this study can inspire and provide useful information for further
study.
F. Definition of Terms
The following are three terms that are used in this study. They are described as followed.
1. Workbook or
LKS Lembar Kerja Siswa
Soepomo 1978: 309 argues that workbook is an exercise book used by teachers as facilitation for students to study and this book is designed as a supplement
for textbook. Soepomo adds that this book contains many exercises for students and those exercises are printed on cheap paper. Supriadi 2001: 2 states that workbook is
a book which is published by private publisher and used by the students based on school’s choice; the aim of this book is to support textbook. This book is inexpensive
and widely published in many bookstores. It contains many kinds of exercise for the students; essay, true-false, multiple choices, completion, or matching exercise. Those
exercises are designed according to the syllabus and curriculum from the Government.
Based on the explanation above, in this research, the researcher defines workbook as a book which is generally called as LKS or Lembar Kerja Siswa. This
LKS provides a lot of exercises for students to practice. The workbook is affordable
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besides textbook.
2. Seventh Graders
This refers to the students in the first grade of Junior High School. The age range of the students is about 12-15 years old. In this study, they are the students of
the schools which are using the newest curriculum, KTSP Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan, in Yogyakarta.
3. Content Analysis
As Ary, Jacobs, and Sorensen 2010: 29 say, content analysis is a kind of research approaches in which focuses on analyzing and interpreting recorded material
to learn about human behaviour. Content analysis is also known as document analysis because the researcher must study the documents to figure out the problem. Next,
Bogdan and Biklen 2003: 57 argue that as qualitative research, document analysis uses documents as their primary source of data.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
This chapter discusses theories upon which this research is laid down. There are two major sections to be discussed here as the groundwork of this research. They
are theoretical description and theoretical framework.
A. Theoretical Description
There are three major issues underlying this research. They include theories related to working with workbook, materials evaluation, and book evaluation criteria
to support the research. The theories were stated by some experts in language teaching.
1. Working with a Workbook
Workbook contains a lot of exercises and it plays an important role for the students to practice. Soepomo 1978: 317 defines a workbook as supplementary for
textbook besides teacher’s manual book, and extensive reading book. The availability of a workbook is aimed to compulse both teacher and students to do exercise based
on the materials taught from the textbook. Workbook enables the students to have greater opportunities to repeat and practice their English. Workbook is said to be one
of the needs material for teaching which are used in a school and considered as one of the keys to success and the failure of the teaching.
In learning language, students need a lot of practice because when they have a
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