ENGLISH TEXTBOOK ANALYSIS ON CHARACTER EDUCATION AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Abstract

This study discussed about the English textbook analysis on character education in senior high school for tenth grade students published by Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia. The textbook entitle „Bahasa Inggris Kelas X‟. This study aims to know the character education represented in the written text: instructions, reading texts, dialogue texts and quotes of the tenth grade students‟ English textbook. This study focused on 6 elements of character education in 2013 curriculum; honesty, responsibility, social care, discipline, politeness and responsiveness. This study analysed what kinds of character values were available in written text of the textbook and how the character values promoted in 4 categories of written text. This study analysed those character education values by using content analysis of Elo and Kyngas (2007) in The Qualitative Content Analysis Process. The study used content analysis by coding the text in order to reveal which are the texts in tenth grade students English textbook contained 6 elements of character education values from 2013 curriculum and how do the written texts promote those character. There are 6 elements of characters education based on second core competence in 2013 curriculum. Honesty, as one of the elements in character education, is found in two categories of textual information or written texts, i.e. instructions and reading texts. Responsibility and Social care, the second and the third elements of character education, are found in all four categories of textual information or written texts, i.e. instructions, reading texts, dialogue texts and quotes. Discipline, as the forth element of character education, is found in instructions, reading texts and quotes as 3 categories in textual information. Politeness, the fifth element of character education, is found in reading texts and dialogue texts and the last element of character education, responsiveness, is found in the two categories in textual information or written texts, i.e. instructions and dialogue texts. The result also answered the research questions. The first questions asked „which are the written texts in the tenth grade students‟ English textbook for senior high school contained the elements of honesty, discipline, responsibility, politeness, social care and responsiveness?‟ the researcher concluded that not all the textual information (instructions, reading texts, dialogue texts and quotes) contain 6 elements of character values, but overall the written text contained at least 3 up to 5 elements for each categories. The second question asked „how do the aspects of character education in the textbook promote those characters?‟ the answer could be seen in the sub chapter 4 about the element of character education promoted in textual information. On the other hand, there are some values that are not represented in the one of the category. The category is quotes. The values are honest, politeness and responsiveness. The absence of the values comes from the small amount of quotes that presented in the textbooks. There are 11 quotes from 15 chapters in the textbook and only 4 quotes represent the 3 elements of character education. There was one quote from Les Brown in first chapter and it was appear again in the last chapter. We could only find one quotes for each chapter or we couldn‟t find any. Each quote has its own value to learn by the students. Usually the students will be interested to read a quote from important/influential person such as president, hero, or his/her favourite famous person, such as singer, football player or actress/actor. The other weakness is in the amount of reading text that represented honesty value. There is only one text entitled „The Legend of Malin Kundang‟ that speaks for honesty as character education value. Therefore, the writers and the teachers have a crucial role to affect the unequal arrangement of character education values. This becomes a recommendation for the writers of the textbook to give an addition of quotes in order to motivate and inspire the students with their quotes and also the addition in reading text that represented the honesty value