The Evaluationof The English Textbook “When English Rings A Bell” for Eighth Grade of Junior High School

SUMMARY Sutrisno,Freddy Setya Budi. 2018. The Evaluation of The English Textbook “When English Rings ABell” for Eighth Grade of Junior High School. Sarjana’s Thesis. Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Negeri Malang. Advisor: (I) Dr. Johannes A.Prayogo., M.Pd., M.Ed., (II)Prof. Bambang YudiCahyono, M.Pd., MA., Ph.D. Keywords : evaluation, English textbook, criteria of good EFL textbook The Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia has decided that education in Indonesia must implement the 2013 curriculum. By i m p l e m en t i n g 2 013 c u r r i c u l um , Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture (MOEC) provides a textbook to help the students to learn English with standardizingcompetency of attitude, knowledge, and skills integrated. Hence, the study is aimed at evaluating the English textbook “When English Rings ABell” for SMP/MTs Grade VIII published by Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture. The textbookis whether it has beencompatible with the criteria of a good textbook in terms of content appropriateness, linguistic appropriateness, and presentation appropriatenessdetermined by BSNP (Badan StandarNasionalPendidikan). The method used in this study wasevaluationmethod. It was done by analysing the content of the textbook. The researcher collects the data by comparing the textbookagainst some criteria. The data analysis was calculated by dividing the total of criteria points which were met in the textbook with the entire criteria points. The study starts with 3 systematic steps. Those were (1) referring criteria for English textbook analysis issued by BSNP, (2) analysing the English textbook of “When Ring A Bell” Grade VIII based oncontent aspect, language aspect, and presentation aspect, and (3) calculating and interpreting the data collection by dividing the total of criteria points in atextbook with the total of criteria points in all of aspects and multiplied by 100%. The findings show that the textbook “When English Rings A Bell” Grade VIII for Junior High School (SMP/MTs) was categorized “good” by achieving “good score” on fourout of seven proposed criteria. The four criterionsare the appropriateness of materials with standard of competence and basic competence (83%), the material accuracy (100%), language appropriateness (100%), presentation technique (100%). The other aspects are (1) supporting learning materials by achieving 60%, (2) teaching and learnin g technique by achieving 75%, (3) presentation coverage which was the remaining aspect achieved 64% which meant that it was “fair”. Thus, “When English Rings ABell” for SMP/MTs Grade VIII generally could be categorized asa good English textbook based on BSNP’s criteria. The recommendation is if English teachers plan to use the textbook, they should compensatethe English textbook with somesupplementary materials to enrichstudent’s competence level. Normal 0 false false false IN X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:Table Normal;mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-priority:99;mso-style-qformat:yes;mso-style-parent:;mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;mso-para-margin-top:0cm;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}