AN ANALYSIS ON THE READING PRESENTATION OF LET’S TALK ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

  AN ANALYSIS ON THE READING PRESENTATION OF LET’S TALK ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL A thesis Submitted to English Department as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for S.Pd Degree By: JEANNY CALISTA 0801050128 ENGLISH DEPARTMENT TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF PURWOKERTO 2012

Dedication

  

This thesis is proudly dedicated to:

♣♥ Allah SWT and the prophets ♥♣

  Who given me all of things for my life and always guide me, “I am nothing without the blessing” ^_^ ♥ My beloved Mother *mamake Tiwik* and Father *bapake Yono* ♥

  Thank you for your pray, your endless love, your struggle, your sacrifice and motivation, “I love you so much mom dad” ^_^

  ♫ My supervisors *Drs. Pudiyono, M.Hum and Listiani, M.Pd* ♫ Who have given me suggestion, advice, time, guidance and patience so that I could finish this research,

  “Thank you so much” ^_^ ♥ My beloved behel sisters *Miss Betha and Miss Thifa* ♥

  Thank for your big attention, support, pray and advice that makes me

strong to face this life,

“Love you so much” ^_^

  ♫ My lovely aunty and cousins *Bude Endank, mb Ela and mz Aan *♫ Thank you for your big support, advice, help and attention, “Thank you so much” ^_^

  ♥My partner in love *Tidar Kurnia Pandu Arifin (ay vanpan jiban)*♥

Thank you for your love, big support, patience, attention and everything,

“Thank you so much” ^_^

  ♫My beloved lovely hunny bunny sweety friends♫

• intiel* (thank you bebbebh you always give me support when I hopeless, you are really really my best friend), *rinoel* (thank you enull you always

  

ready in beside me, you are really my best friend too) , *tiqoel* (thank you

for your support and help, you are my crazy friend), *emon* (thank you for

your help and support, you are my kind friend), *emuss* (thank you for

your help, you are my kind friend too), *kucrits* windoel*ecihh*

dephol*kiwiel*nophil*miptah*nindy*basirun*lalangers*vian*anjun*entog*

thanks for everything,

  

“Love you guys” ^_^

♪My beloved brother *mz Febri Indra Kurniawan*♪

  

And His father *Mr. Agus Sapto Nugroho (CMD)*

Thank you for your big support and advice, I learned from your discipline

and hard work,

“Thank you so much” ^_^

  

♫My close friends♫

• *dwi uwie cupliss*aurora*jenk Liyana*issa carrisa*Rizka ciriwit*nony

  nanny *aya farah*titis dora*mb ratih*de kaka* thank you for everything,

  “Love you so much” ^_^

  

♥My beloved family PPL KKN SMPN 1 Rawalo♥

• *unyel*unyil*nononk*bapake*ndangbo*mz encut*etwiinn*tioondol2*mz

  manan*titi*pupup*cepti*kimpul*mb injit*mb yiyin*mb muplay*afti*krisna*

  “Thank you for our family relationship”....#kiss hug ^_^

  

♫My beloved *sweet C1 class*♫

and *A,B,C2,D class* English Department ’08 friends.

  

Thank you for our family relationship for the 4 years, I cannot mention

you one by one,

• *I will miss all of you* ^_^

  

♣My “Unyu-Unyu” Wisma Sakinah boarding house friends♣

• *my sister ayukeekee*mb mennnik*mb mboke duii*imoet*mb nila*desong*

  mb ais*cepty ndut*mz andri*madam*vithul*shanti and etc*.

  

Thank you for everything...

  

”Miss you guys” ^_^

  MOTTO Don’t think about thesis but you have to do Drs. Pudiyono, M.Hum

  Man jadda wajada Hadist Rasulullah

  Imposible is nothing Rr. Inti Rizky Prabawati, S.Pd

  Success = struggle + sacrifice + tears + effort + pray + desire + spirit + confident + positive thinking + do the best Jeje Geje

  

PREFACE

Assalamu’alaikum Wr. Wb

  In the name of Allah SWT, the beneficent, the almighty whose blessing has made all possible for the writer to finish this research paper first of all, the writer would like to thank to Allah SWT who has guidance, merciful, and his permission, so that she can finish writing her thesis as partial fulfillment to get S.

  Pd degree. Hadist In this occasion, the writer would like to thank deeply to: 1. Drs. Joko Purwanto, M. Pd, the Dean of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto.

  2. Endang Kusrini, S. Pd, M. Hum the head of English Department of Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto.

  3. Drs. Pudiyono, M. Hum as the first supervisor who gave guidance, advice, support, and suggestion.

  4. Listiani, M. Pd as the second supervisor who gave guidance, advice, support, and suggestion.

  5. All of lectures of English Department of University of Muhammadiyah Purwokerto.

  The writer believes that there are many weaknesses in her thesis, so the writer welcomes critics and suggestions to improve her further writing. She hopes her thesis will be useful for anyone, especially the students of Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto.

  Purwokerto

  28 Agustus 2012 The writer

  

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE................................................................................................ i APPROVAL..................................................................................... ii

DEDICATION.................................................................................. v

MOTTO............................................................................................. vii

PREFACE.......................................................................................... viii

TABLE OF CONTENTS.................................................................. x

ABSRACT......................................................................................... xii

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION….....……....………………….....

  1 A.

  1 The Background of Research………..……………… B.

  3 The Reasons of Choosing the Topic ………………..

  C.

  3 Research Problem…………………………………… D.

  4 The Aims of Research……………………………….

  E.

  4 The Limitation of Problem…………………………..

  F.

  4 Research Contribution...…………………………….

  CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW...….....……………………

  5 A.

  5 Previous Researches…….…………………………… B. Textbook………………………………....…………. 6 1.

  6 The Definition of Textbook…………………….

  2.

  8 The Importance of Textbook…………………… 3.

  9 The Function of Textbook……………………… 4.

  10 The Roles of Textbook….……………………… 5.

  11 The Advantages of Textbook…………….……..

  6.

  12 The Qualification of Textbook.………………… 7.

  15 The Weakness of Textbook ……….…………… C. Reading……………………..………………………. 16 1.

  16 The Nature of Reading………………….……… 2.

  16 The Purpose of Reading………………….……..

  3.

  18 The Scope of Reading in Junior High School.….

  D.

  19 Reading Presentation..................................................

  E.

  19 English Syllabus of Junior High School ...................

  1.

  19 Definition of Syllabus……………………….…….

  2. Criteria of an English Syllabus…………….……

  19 CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD…………….……………....

  21 A.

  21 The Method of Research……………………………..

  B.

  22 The Object of Research……………………………… C.

  22 The Technique of Collecting Data…………………… D.

  23 The Technique of Analyzing Data…………………… CHAPTER IV RESULT and DISCUSSION.....................................

  24 A.

  Result............................................................................. 24 B. Discussion....................................................................... 38 CHAPTER V CONCLUSION and SUGGESTION........................

  76 A.

  Conclusion.................................................................... 76 B. Suggestion.................................................................... 77

  

REFERENCES…………………………………………………...... 78

APPENDIX........................................................................................ 80

  

ABSTRACT

AN ANALYSIS ON THE READING PRESENTATION

OF “LET’S TALK” ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS

FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

  

JEANNY CALISTA

0801050128

  A textbook is one of the material references of the English reading teaching at Junior High School. The English teacher has responsibility to select textbooks which used as a material in teaching learning process because not all of English textbooks present good reading materials. A good textbook should be relevant and support the implementation of the curriculum. The purposes of this research are to describe on how reading section is presented in textbook and to know whether “Let’s Talk” textbooks are compatible with English syllabus or not.

  This research used a descriptive method. The subjects of this research were the textbooks entitled “Let’s Talk” English for Junior High School grades

  VII, VIII and IX. This research used two main instruments to collect the data: documentation and checklist evaluation criteria based on the English syllabus. After analyzing the content of the reading presentation of the books, the next step was concluding the result of the analysis of the description of reading presentation and percentage form to know how reading skill presented and the appropriate or inappropriate of the textbooks.

  The result showed that the textbooks presentation on reading consisted of instructions, pre-questions, graphics, generic structures points, texts, pictures, comprehension questions, explanations and tasks. Besides that, the textbooks were considered relevant to the English syllabus of Junior High School which got 100% appropriateness between the content of reading presentation of the books and English syllabus. It could be said that the “Let’s Talk” English textbooks for Junior High School was appropriate.