CONTENT ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH TEXTBOOK “INTERACTIVE ENGLISH” USED IN FIRST GRADE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL IN 2013 CURRICULUM

Abstract

Textbook is book that contains of the main material of a course and it is the source of teaching matter for teaching and learning process ongoing. In the field of education, textbook is used for teaching matter and reference book. Textbook provides teaching text and leaning task. This research is conducted by applying descriptive qualitative. The objectives of this study are to find out the suitability of impressionistic and in-depth analysis in the textbook entitles "Interactive English” used for the seventh grade of Junior High School. The data was collected by documenting the content materials on the textbook and it was analyzed by using Cunningsworth's theory. This result showed that an English textbook entitle “Interactive English" fulfilled the criteria proposed in Cunningsworth's theory concerning the impressionistic textbook analysis with score 96% and in-depth textbook analysis with the summative score 87%. From those summative scores, the textbook was categorized as a good enough textbook and suitable enough to use as media in teaching and learning process.