ABSTRACT
CONTENT ANALYSIS ON THE ENGLISH TEXTBOOK
“BAHASA INGGRIS SMA/MA KELAS X”
ARI SIHAD SYALE
A1D2 14 086
This research was accomplished to find out whether “BahasaInggris” textbook for Grade X fulfill each criterion of textbook evaluation criteria based on Jahangard’s theory. The researcher used the qualitative analysis as his research design.The data source was collected from “BahasaInggris” textbook for Grade X published by PusatKurikulumdanPerbukuan, Balitbang, Kemendikbud. The instrument of this study was table of textbook evaluation criteria. The researcher collected the data by using checklist to evaluate the textbook and analyzing the data shown from the checklist and making some interpretations, and finally describing the results from the assessment table. The result confirmed that only five of fourteen sub-criteria which did not be fulfilled, they are vocabulary section consists of list of words and their definition, each chapter should consists of four skills, there is a grammar presentation in each chapter and the words are correctly spelled. While the rest nine sub-criteria were fulfilled. It was recommended to the teacher to be more critical and could cover the weaknesses of the book by various teaching style or find another reference outside this textbook.
Key words: Textbook, evaluation criteria.