THE ANALYSIS OF THE TEXTBOOK: “WHEN ENGLISH RINGS A BELL“BASED ON BRIAN TOMLINSON’S (2011) PRINCIPLES OF MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING

Abstract

This study had purposes to investigate the English textbook “When English Rings a Bell” for the eighth grade students for Junior High School based on Brian Tomlinson’s (2011) principles. This study was expected to the teachers to identify and choose the English textbooks that appropriate learning materials to be used in the classroom based on Tomlinson’s (2011) principles before they use the book as the source for teaching materials in the classroom. Then, for the other researchers can do the next study and evaluation of the students’ book to fulfill a good textbook. Furthermore, this study is expected to give some knowledge about appropriate learning materials to be used in teaching and learning process in the classroom. The type of this study was pre use evaluation because it is prepared to be used in teaching and learning process in the classroom. The design of this study was content analysis. Document analysis method and interview the teachers were applied to collect the data from the English textbook “When English Rings a Bell” for the eighth grade students. The participant in this study was teacher who uses the English textbook “When English Rings a Bell” for eighth grade students. The data were taken based on the syllabus in this semester and mostly the structures in the textbook are homogeny. The structures in the textbook are observing, questioning, collecting information, associating and communicating. Those structures based on scientific approach in 2013 curriculum. The data were analyzed qualitatively by employing Tomlinson’s (2011) principles. Then, the study was in five steps, covering reading materials, identifying, analyzing, classifying the aspects and concluding the finding. The result of the analysis showed that the materials in the English textbook “When English Rings a Bell” for the eighth grade students meet the principles of Tomlinson (2011) including (1) materials should expose learners to language in authentic use, (2) materials should provide learners with opportunities to use, (3) materials should take account that learners differ in learning style (4) materials should take in account that the learners differ in affective attitudes, and (5) materials should provide opportunities for outcome feedback on the effectiveness of the language use of the language for further language outcome. From this study, there was one thing that could be concluded. The materials in the English textbook “When English Rings a Bell” for the eighth grade students meet five principles of Tomlinson (2011). In each principle consists of 4 material components including language ability, learning task, method, and evaluation. All of the materials in the chapter VIII in English textbook “When English Rings a Bell” require the principles of Tomlinson (2011) and material components. In the other hand, in the chapter does not provide a cassette to support listening practice in the classroom because of the problem the teachers should seek the materials from other sources. The results of the discussion showed that all of the materials in the chapters are suitable to be used in teaching and learning process in the classroom because the materials are appropriate to be used as a reference in teaching and learning process in the classroom. Each chapter consists of 4 materials component; there are language ability, learning task, method, and evaluation.