| dc.description.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. | en_US |
