| dc.description.abstract | This research discussed about the analysis of the National Character
Building of the PATHWAY TO ENGLISH English course book for tenth grade
students of senior high school published by Erlangga in 2013. This analysis
focused on the reading skill. This research analyzed what kinds of character
values were available in reading sections of the PATHWAY TO ENGLISH
course book, how the character values were covered by reading section of
PATHWAY TO ENGLISH course book, and what was the precentage of
character values covered on reading sections of English course book “PATHWAY
TO ENGLISH” for the tenth grade students of senior high school based on the
character values that were listed in “Kemendiknas”.
The design of this research was content analysis. The collected data was
collected from the English course book “PATHWAY TO ENGLISH” published
by Erlangga for tenth grade students of senior high school. The National Character
Building was used as a parameter to reveal the availability of the character values.
The result of this research pointed out that among the 8 character values of
the National Character Building in the reading sections of the English course book
“PATHWAY TO ENGLISH” for the tenth grade students of senior high school 4
were available: Friendly/Communicative, Inquisitive, Independent, and Hard
Working. Whereas, the 4 unavailable were: Discipline, Care Toward
Environment, Democratic, and Keen on Reading.
Among the 8 character values, the percentage for Friendly/Communicative
was 47.37 %, Care Toward Environment was 0 %, Inquisitive was 36,85 %, was
Democratic 0 %, Independent was 5,25 %, Hard Working was 10.53 %,
Discipline was 0 %, and Keen On Reading was 0%. Thus, the highest character
value in the sections of the course book was the “Friendly/Communicative”.
Based on the result of the research, to raise the optimal implementation of
the 8 character values of the National Character Building, teachers should use
other ways to teach character values to the students, looking for additional reading
material that contained those unavailable character values or the teachers can
develop the reading material creatively in teaching learning process, for instance.
Further, the result of this research also suggested to future researchers who are
interested in conducting the same research to find the gap and investigate other
elements such as analyzing the National Character Building in listening, speaking
or writing skill in PATHWAY TO ENGLISH English course book published by
Erlangga 2013. Thus, the result of this study can be additional sources for future
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