THE ANALYSIS OF CHARACTER VALUES IN THE NATIONAL CHARACTER BUILDING CONTENT ON READING SECTIONS OF “PATHWAY TO ENGLISH” COURSE BOOK PUBLISHED BY ERLANGGA 2013

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 research.