In other word, the roles of the textbook are related to the curriculum, especially with the syllabus.
The textbook, in contrast to all other kind of books, contain exercises, study questions, and practice materials. Textbooks come in a great variety of
sizes, shapes, and organization. They may consist entirely of the writing of one author or an author and collaborator, or they may consist of materials from a
great number of writers with interstitial comment by the compilers. Although textbooks have many roles in education, they have some
limitations. Teachers should not only use textbooks in the teaching and learning process, but they should use other instructional resources, such as magazines,
newspapers, journals, etc. Despite of the fact that the role of the textbooks is inevitable in teaching
learning process, it cannot be denied that textbooks cannot replace teachers’ role although in some cases teaching and learning process occurs through textbooks.
Moreover, when we realize that they cannot adjust to various situations. In other word, it can be said that textbooks do not teach but a teacher does.
Teaching materials, which are presented in the textbooks, are organized artificially for a certain class. For example, in a language class, a dialogue is
presented artificially. The situation will be very different if the teacher presents a real dialogue in front of the class.
2.7. Curriculum Mapping
According to http:en.wikipedia.orgwikicurriculum_mapping
, curriculum mapping is a procedure for reviewing the operational curriculum as
it is entered into an electronic data base at any education setting. Another explanation comes from
http:www.education- world.coma_currvirtualwkshp004.shtml
, which states that curriculum mapping is a process for collecting and recording curriculum-related data that
identifies core skills and content taught, processes employed, and assessments used for each subject area and grade level.
The purpose of curriculum mapping is to document the relationship between every component of the curriculum, which is used as an analysis
and planning tool. Meanwhile, the functions of a Curriculum mapping are as follows:
1. allows educators to review the curriculum to check for unnecessary redundancies, inconsistencies, misalignments, weaknesses and gaps;
2. documents the relationships between the required components of the curriculum and the intended student learning outcomes;
3. helps identify opportunities for integration among disciplines; 4. provides a review of assessment methods; and
5. identifies what students have learned, allowing educators to focus on building on previous knowledge. http:www.education-
world.coma_currvirtualwkshp004.shtml
Curriculum mapping is very important for helping us in selecting textbook in order to get the suitable textbook for us, particularly for students. The
textbook itself should be conforming, compatible, and suitable with the curriculum.
CHAPTER III METHOD OF INVESTIGATION
This chapter will describe in detail the method of investigation. It is divided into several parts. They are research approach, source of data, procedure
of collecting the data, procedure of analyzing the data and technique in reporting the result of the analysis.
3.1. Research Approach
In analyzing the competitiveness of the speaking materials from the textbook, the writer used the qualitative approach. According to Miles and
Hubberman 1984: 28: Qualitative study is a conceptual framework explains either graphically
or in narrative form, the main dimensions to be studied. The key factors or variables and presumed relationships among them. Framework come
in several shapes and sizes. They can be rudimentary or elaborate, theory-driven or commonsensical, descriptive or casual.
Qualitative research presents the data and research results in the form of qualitative description. Analysis of this type is done with words to describe
conclusions. So the qualitative study obtains the descriptive data either spoken or written. Therefore, the data will be in the form of complete description and
identification of the speaking materials from the textbook.
3.2. Source of Data
There are many English textbooks available in Indonesia. They are published by some private publishing companies. To conduct the teaching-
learning process, the teacher has to find a book which is suitable with 2006 curriculum and is easy to be studied by the students. Therefore, in this study the
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