AN ANALYSIS OF LISTENING MATERIALS BASED ON THE NATIONAL CHARACTER BUILDING FOR THE SEVENTH YEAR STUDENTS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Abstract

The listening materials of the English textbook “Interactive English” contain 77.8% character values in National Character Building, and 22.2% is unavailable. Although some character values in National Character Building unavailable , the listening materials of the English textbook can be as a guidance and source to implement of character education for junior high school because the available ones are still dominant. Based on the result of the research, in order to achieve the goal of National Education and key components of Character Education, the researcher suggests the English teachers who use the listening materials of the English textbook “Interactive English” published by Yudhistira for the seventh year students of junior high school consider that they should to find other character values which are not revealed in other English textbook of other publications or sources. It is also suggested that the English teacher can vary the activities in teaching learning process raise the character values which are not revealed. It is also suggested to the other researchers who are interested in similar study to investigate other elements about the National Character Building, so they will have wider scope of the subject of the study by conducting a further research focusing on analyzing the other English textbook for a certain level published by a certain publisher based on character education standard in curriculum applied currently and use the results of this research and as additional information.