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Lexical Bundles in Reading Passages of English Textbook for Senior High School: A Comparative Study Between Three Textbooks of Different Grades Ritanti Lasmita; Alamsyah Harahap; Safnil Arsyad
Edu-Ling: Journal of English Education and Linguistics Vol. 6 No. 2 (2023): July
Publisher : English Education Study Program Faculty of Teacher Training and Education

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This study discusses lexical bundles in reading passages in English textbooks for senior high school. This study has two objectives, the first is to find out lexical bundles three-word and four-word are found in reading passages of English Textbook for senior high school for X, XI, and XII grade. Second, To find of lexical Category types found in reading passages of English Textbook for senior high school entitled ”Bahasa Inggris” for X, XI, and XII grade. In addition, this study used theory from Biber. According to Biber, the categories of lexical bundles are noun phrase, verb phrase and prepositional phrase. This study uses a quantitative descriptive method used reading passages in an English textbook for senior high school entitled "Bahasa Inggris". Data collection in this study was assisted by Antconc software to determine lexical bundles and analyze lexical bundles according the category of lexical bundles. From the results of the study there were 146 lexical bundles in X grade, 203 lexical bundles in XI grade, and 199 lexical bundles in XII grade. Then, 299 categories of lexical bundles noun phrases, 159 verb phrases, and 91 lexical bundles preposition phrases. Lexical bundles three-word and four-word are found in reading passages in English textbooks. Then, three-word lexical bundles have the highest occurrence rate. In addition, the noun phrase category has a level of occurrence that is often used in reading passages in English textbooks for senior high school.
CULTURAL CONTENT ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ENTITLE “ BAHASA INGGIS WHEN ENGLISH RINGS A BELL” ritanti lasmita; Safnil Arsyad; Alamsyah Harahap
Journal of English for Specific Purposes in Indonesia (JESPI) Vol. 3 No. 1 (2024): January 2024
Publisher : UNIB Press

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The most important element of English teaching is culture. The cultural content of the language education and learning process supports students to describe the language that exists in that culture. Culture content like communicated trough the textbook as they play an important role in the process of education and learning. So, culture content analysis is very important to select, develop and efective used the right textbooks. The aim of this research is to examine the types of cultures represented in textbooks, classify them into source cultures, target cultures, and international cultures (Cortazzi & Jin, 1999), and how the cultures of the classified textbooks are represented. Is to find out. In aesthetic, social, semantic, and practical senses (Adaskou, Britten & Fahsi, 1990). Researchers used descriptive qualitative methods. The data of this research is the English textbook When English Rings for junior hihg school. This data is cutural material gathered from all readings, conversations, task ,and images contents in the textbook and converted in terms of frequency. There are two results found in the textbook analysis. First is the results presented in the textbook entitle “ when English rings the bell are source culture, target culture and international culture. Secondly, the culture of both textbooks was represented primarily by pragmatic sensations, as compared to aesthetic, semantic and sociological sensations. Therefore, we can conclude that there was an imbalance between the type of culture presented and the how cultures was presented in the textbook.