Teachers’ Shared Lived Experience
Financial motivation √
Professional needs
Teaching style √
√ Teaching experience
√ √
Administrators Institutional needs
Educational policy √
√ Market forces
√ Table 4.4. Needs Addressed by Mr. Yudi and Bu Ami
Analyzing the teachers‟ statements, the researcher found out that both teachers shared the similar experience that they had never applied any systematic
textbooks evaluation checklist. Both agreed that textbooks selection is the process of looking through the textbooks, checking the suitability with the needs they
want to meet, and finally deciding the textbooks to use YudACT-Steps of textbooks selection, AmiACT-Steps of textbooks selection, which is in line
with Tomlinson 2003: 23, Harmer 2001: 301 and Cunningsworth 1995: 1. The steps done by both of them go in line with the theory of pre-use textbooks
selection proposed by Masuhara 1998, which is described as investigating certain textbooks in order to check the match with the needs.
In the process of selecting textbooks, one of the teachers faces the problem of students‟ financial AMIACT-Consideration of textbook selection. It cannot
be denied that the price of textbooks become one of major considerations of teachers in selecting textbooks. In relation to the Curriculum 2013 implementation
nowadays, this problem occurs as the distribution of Curriculum 2013 textbooks from the governments has not been finished while actually those textbooks have
to be purchased using schools‟ BOS. Facing this problem, the schools administrators could only purchase the teacher‟s selected textbooks in a limited
number based on the school‟s financial condition, which was impossible for each student to borrow it. This made the teacher felt it was needed to ask the students to
purchase the textbook by themselves, which then made her to consider the textbook affordability for students AMIACT-Considerations of textbooks
selection. The researcher found out that the two teachers were autonomous in
selecting textbooks. They had awareness that they needed to select books other than textbook published by Erlangga. They also had willingness and ability to
select books in order to complete the materials which they thought uncovered by the textbook YudACT-
Teachers‟ autonomy to select textbooks, AmiACT- Teacher‟s autonomy to select textbooks. This is as what Littlewood stated an
autonomous person as someone who has an independent capacity, which consists of ability and willingness, to make and carry out choices which govern his or her
actions 1997. They selected books in order to be able to achieve not only the professional needs but also the demands of the administrators and curricula.
Mr. Yudi always tried to find and use many books which could complete one another in order to be able appropriately cover all skills so that he did not
think that there was any significant correlation between selecting one particular textbook with the students‟ success of learning YudBLF-The contribution of
appropriate textbooks selection to the success of teaching learning process. Meanwhile, Bu Ami believed that being able to select one single textbook,
containing much exposure on reading and appropriate for the st udents‟ level,
would much more beneficially boost the students‟ success in learning. This might be
because considering the students‟ needs of preparation for examination which was assumed to text on their reading comprehension AmiBLF-The contribution
of appropriate textbooks selection to the success of teaching learning process.