AN ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH TEXTBOOK ENTITLED “ENGLISH FOR CHANGE” WITH REFERENCE TO INDEPENDENT LEARNING CURRICULUM

Abstract

The Independent Learning Curriculum has been implemented, and one of the essential parts of its implementation is the textbook as one of the teaching and learning media. It acts as guidance for novice as well as senior teachers. Therefore, the researchers were interested in conducting a textbook evaluation on an English textbook entitled “English for Change” used by eleventh graders. This study aimed to find out whether the book already fulfils the criteria of a good textbook regarding its appropriateness and relevance to independent curriculum and CEFR. The instrument used in this study was an evaluation rubric developed by Cunningsworth. The data were analyzed through document analysis techniques. The results indicated that this textbook as a means of teaching and learning has shown good quality and is relevant to the current curriculum. However, the reading passages were above the students’ targeted level and grammar points were inconsistent with the level of targeted CEFR in this curriculum.