In reading and writing activities, the provision of a model text is inevitable. There
fore the quality of reading texts become the first priority and this inspires the
writer in stating the problem of this study; that is how the rhetorical developments of the reading texts in the SHS English textbooks are realized.
However in details the study aims at answering the following problems: 1. Which genres are found in the SHS English textbooks?
2. To what extent do the rhetorical developments of those respective genres serve to achieve their respective social purposes?
3. To what extent do their linguistic features of those RD elements support the achievement of their respective social purposes?
4. To what extent are those texts compatible with the 2006 EC?
1. 3 Objective of the Study
Based on the problem statements, this study is aimed at describing the rhetorical
development realization of the reading texts in the SHS English textbooks. This consists of:
1. finding out the genres available in the textbooks for SHS students.
2. explaining how those respective genre rhetorical developments achieve the
social purposes. 3.
describing how the respective linguistic features of RD elements achieve the social purposes.
4. explaining how those texts are compatible with the 2006 EC.
1. 4 Significance of the Study
The results of this study will hopefully be used as considerations for English
teachers of Senior High Schools, especially the ones who do not feel so confident in applying the 2006 EC, to evaluate reading texts in the textbooks they use for
teaching. When the reading texts are proved to have an unsatisfactory quality, teachers can improve them to become sufficiently appropriate. If it is too much to
improve, teachers can change them with good quality of reading texts, or use other textbooks with good reading texts.
For writers of textbooks, the results can guide them to write reading texts that are accepted by the native, meaning that the reading texts are written based on
the conventions of English texts, i.e. consideration of the influence of both the English cultural and situational contexts. This can be done when revising their
textbooks or when writing the new ones. Since the 2006 EC is new, it is very likely that new textbooks that are written based on it will be published.
For the textbook editors, the results of this study may be used as references to edit the reading texts of the textbooks.
If all reading texts in the English text books are of good quality, the exercises concerning their rhetorical development and realization, will hopefully
build the students appropriate text schemata that can be activated when they deal with English texts so that they can get much information and write English texts
which are acceptable by the native.
To sum up, by conducting this study the quality of reading texts can be seen. This
is needed to determine whether they can be either used as model texts, or revised, or substituted with the good ones.
1. 5 Scope and Limitation
