Analysis of Character Education Values in the English Textbook “Bahasa Inggris SMA/SMK

Abstract

This research discussed about the analysis of character education values of the English textbook “Bahasa Inggris SMA/SMK” for tenth grade students semester 2 of senior high school published by Pusat Kurikulum dan Perbukuan, Balitbang, Kemdikbud in 2014. This study aims to know the character education values which represented in the material of the textbook. This analysis focused on the reading skill. This research analyzed what kinds of character values were available in reading material of textbook “Bahasa Inggris SMA/SMK”, what was the percentage of character values represented in reading material of English textbook “Bahasa Inggris SMA/SMK” for the tenth grade semester 2 of senior high school based on the character values that are released by Education Ministry (2010). The design of this research was content analysis and description. The data was collected from the English textbook “Bahasa Inggris SMA/SMK” for tenth grade student semester 2 of senior high school. The Character Education Values were used as a parameter to reveal the availability of the character values. The result of this research points out that among the 18 character values of Character Education Values, the reading section of the English textbook “Bahasa Inggris SMA/SMK” for the tenth grade student semester 2 of senior high school represents 14 values: religious, honest, tolerant, disciplined, hardworking, creative, curious, nationalistic, patriotic, appreciative of achievement, friendly or communicative, peace loving, socially concerned, and responsible. Whereas, the 4 unavailable values were: environmentally aware, independent, democratic, and joyful of reading. Thus, the reading material still contained the character values, which can be used as teaching learning sources material. The available character values in the reading material of the English textbook “Bahasa Inggris SMA/SMK” were: Religious 6%, honest 2.9%, tolerant 2.9%, disciplined 6%, hardworking 17.7%, creative 8.8%, independent 0%, democratic 0%, curious 8.8%, nationalistic 2.9%, patriotic 2.9%, appreciative of achievement 8.8%, friendly or communicative 8.8%, peace loving 2.9%, joyful reading 0%, environmentally aware 0%, socially concerned 8.8%, and responsible 11.8%. Thus, the highest character value in this course book was hardworking value. Based on the result of the research, to raise the optimal implementation of the 18 character education values released by Education Ministry (2010), the government should concern the unavailable values in the English textbook related to the recent educational phenomena in Indonesia. Teachers should improve the ways of teaching character values to the students, looking for additional reading material that contained those unavailable character values or teacher can modify the reading material in teaching and learning process. Further, the result of this research also suggested to the future researchers who are interested in conducting the same research to find the gap and investigate other elements such as analyzing the Character Education Values in listening, speaking or writing skill in the English textbook “Bahasa Inggris SMA/SMK”. Therefore, the result of this study can be additional sources for future researches.