A SCORE CATEGORIZATION SURVEY OF THE EFL TEXTBOOK

Abstract

Textbook is one of references that put English instruction materials which often used by language instructors. Textbook is also a standard source of information for formal study and an instrument for teaching and learning. It should be as one of the many sources teachers can create an effective lesson and may offer a framework of guidance and orientation. Textbook also saving students from teacher deficiencies. When student met with inexperienced teacher in the class who may use a textbook as a pedagogic crutch, the student can minimize the errors by checking on textbook. However, textbook has standard requirement for teaching learning and need an evaluation to know the performance of textbook which can help student and teacher or not. The purpose of the study is to evaluate textbook that used in Academic Writing elementary class in CILACS UII. In this study, student and teacher take as respondent that assume teachers as user in teaching and student as user in learning activity. The population of this study is all students and teachers who contribute in academic writing class in elementary level on January 2016 until January 2017 period class that included 36 students and 4 teachers. The method of this study is quantitative research and adopted Litz (2005) questionnaire as the instrument to collect the data. The questionnaire consist of Student Textbook Evaluation Form and Teacher Textbook Evaluation Form. The result of this study is the highest average score of student textbook evaluation form is practical consideration ( ̅= 3.11) and the lowest average score is layout and design category ( ̅= 2.78). Furthermore, the highest average score of teacher textbook evaluation is language type ( ̅= 3.21) and the lower average score is skill category ( ̅= 2.05).