JEES: Journal of English Educational Study
Vol 1, No 1 (2018): May Edition

AN ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH TEXTBOOK RELEVANCE TO THE 2013 ENGLISH CURRICULUM

Yokie Prasetya Dharma (STKIP Persada Khatulistiwa Sintang)
Thomas Joni Verawanto Aristo (STKIP Persada Khatulistiwa Sintang)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 May 2018

Abstract

Textbook is the heart of teaching and is also a crucial part in the curriculum. However, it is often found out that the materials of a textbook do not represent well the goal targeted in the curriculum.Given this thinking, then this study is aimed at finding out the relevancies of the materials found in the textbook with the 2013 curriculum materials. Utilizing qualitative research through interview with the teacher done on April 4th, 2017 to find teacher’s rationale using the textbook and the document checklist to find the relevance of the textbook to the 2013 curriculum, this study found out that the English textbook used had been relatively relevant to the 2013 curriculum with few lack of relevance to the 2013 curriculum. Therefore, it is expected that theteacher can complete such few lack with other materials to achieve the goal targeted in the 2013 curriculum as well.Keywords: Textbook, 2013 curriculum

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JEES

Publisher

Subject

Education

Description

This journal is aimed to facilitated scholars, researchers, and teachers for publishing the original articles in the form of research paper, theory-based empirical paper, book review, and paper review. The topics cover the area of English Educational Research, English Linguistic, English Literature, ...