Adapting Text Book Textbook

presented in textbook is accurate or not on its social function, generic structure and linguistic feature. a Social Function In this criterion, texts provided in a textbook should help students to get social function that relevant to students’ daily life. b Generic Structure In this criterion, texts offered in a textbook have to help students to develop their ability in thinking systematically and orderly. c Linguistic Feature In this criterion, texts presented in a textbook are supposed to help students to expand their ability to communicate accurately and properly. 3 Supporting materials This criterion is divided into three sub components, which are, relevance, development of life skills and development of diversity insight. a Relevance In this criterion, teaching material Tables, pictures, texts, a n d references provided within textbook should be relevance with topic that will be learned by students. b Development of Life Skills In this criterion, every text available on a textbook should motivate students to develop their life skill that related to personalities, social, academic and vocational life. c Development of Diversity Insight In this criterion, texts should encourage students to develop diversity insight especially in appreciating any kind of cultures, promoting wealthy of Indonesia, appreciating value of democracy and multicultural diversity. b. Feasibility of Presentation The feasibility of presentation is a group of assessment about the presentation of a textbook. The feasibility presentation is including three measurements, namely technique of presentation, learning presentation and completeness of presentation. 1 Technique of presentation. Technique of presentation is divided into two subs criteria which are Systematic and Chapter equilibrium. a Systematic. In this criterion, teaching material should be presented in form of texts that completed by communicative activities, illustrated pictures, and symbols. The arrangement of all of them must be systematically based on characteristic of material, at least starting by introduction, body and closing. b Chapter equilibrium In this criterion, teaching material should be presented in form of texts, communicative activities, illustrated pictures and symbol. All of them have to be offered in balance in every chapter. 2 Learning presentation. The assessment of learning presentation is divided into four subs criteria. They are learner center, developing of initiative, creativity, and learners critical thinking, the development independent learning and the last the development of learners ability to evaluate themselves. a Learner Center In this criterion, textbook should provide learning presentation, learning experience, and activities that encourage students to have interaction between students to students, students to teacher, and students to other people. b Development of Initiative, Creativity, and learners critical thinking Learning presentation, learning experiences and activities that are provided in textbook should motivate students to do any kinds of