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a. Strengths
The first strength was that the textbook represent good value or money. Since Interlanguage: English for Senior High School Student X is provided by
government, it is free to be downloaded. Both teachers and students can download this textbook from education ministry’s official website. The government also
provide the printed version of this textbook which cost Rp 11.907,00.
Figure 4.43 Price for Interlanguage:
English for Senior High School Student X
The second strength was that the textbook is easy to obtain or not. When a textbook is difficult to obtain while many others are easy, people will choose a
textbook which is easily to obtain. This was because this textbook is an electronic book provided by government and it is free to download. The teachers and
students can access it in education ministry’s official website. The last strength was that the textbook works without any particular
equipment. This was because there is no activity in this textbook which needs any particular equipment. The only activity which needs it is only listening, but since
101 there is no recording for listening materials, so the listening activity can be done
by reading the listening script.
b. Weaknesses
The weakness of this aspect was that the appearance is not attractive. According to Riddell 2003, one of the criteria of a good textbook is visually
attractive. The more attractive a textbook, the more desire the readers have. This textbook is grey scale only except the cover and the illustration is not attractive.
Figure 4.44 Example of an illustration
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
This chapter presents conclusions and suggestions based on the research findings. First part is conclusions of the research problem. The suggestions part
provides recommendation for those who are dealing with the Interlanguage: English for Senior High School Students X textbook; teachers, authorspublishers,
and further researchers.
A. Conclusions
This was collaborative research. It focused on analysing the content of Interlanguage: English for Senior High School Students X textbook, which was
provided by government. The aims of this research were to evaluate whether this textbook fulfils the criteria of a good textbook based on Cunningsworth’s theory
and to find strengths and weaknesses of it. Based on the results of the research, the conclusions were drawn.
Based on the results, Interlanguage textbook: English for Senior High School Students X achieved 65.69 fulfilment. The achievement showed that the
textbook was considered as fair textbook. There were eight aspects evaluated in this research. Only three aspects which were considered good, they were language
content 80, topic 100, and methodology 80. Five aspects were considered fair. Those aspects were aims and approaches 66.67, skills
66.67, and practical considerations 75. Design and organization 57.14
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