AN ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH COURSE BOOK ENTITLED GROW WITH ENGLISH

Abstrak / Ringkasan

The objective of the study is to find out the relevance of the Grow with English course book for the fifth-grade elementary school students that are relevant with the KTSP Curriculum or SK and KD.
This study is descriptive – evaluative. The object of the study was Grow with English book 5. The type of the study is content analysis concerning with good book criteria completed with questionnaires for the teachers. The data were collected by an observation and content analysis. The instruments used in this research were interview guide and questionnaires. To collect the data, questionnaires were given to 11 elementary school English teachers of Depok sub – district. Those questionnaires were also used to support the result of the content analysis. The content analysis was used to analyze the data.
The result of the study shows that Grow with English is relevant to the learning objectives in KTSP Curriculum or SK and KD in listening, speaking, and reading because they can cover the learning objectives in listening, speaking and reading, but the activities in writing can be said irrelevant because they cannot cover the learning objectives in writing. This is caused by the small number of activities in writing. Besides those findings, the researcher found that the skills in English course book should balance in each skill. Thus, this study suggested that several stages in select or make the book should be relevant to the learning objectives in KTSP Curriculum.

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