A CONTENT ANALYSIS ON THE ENGLISH FOR VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL TEXTBOOK

Abstract

This article aims to describe the quality of the textbook “English for Vocational High School III,” an English textbook for the third grade of vocational high school, which is written by Yiyis Krisnani and is published by LP2IP Yogyakarta, viewed from the compatibility of the tasks with the curriculum, Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan (KTSP), and their level of communicativeness. The compatibility is identified from the availability of the materials demanded by the indicators in the curriculum and how well the activities developed the learners’ mastery of the materials. The level of communicativeness is based on the classification of communicative activities proposed by Littlewood (1981) that consists of three levels: 1) pre-communicative, functional communication, and social interaction activities. The result of the analysis shows that the compatibility of the tasks with the curriculum is good; 66.67% of the indicators in the curriculum are developed in this book. The level of communicativeness of this book is fair; only 41.67% of the types of communicative activities proposed by Littlewood are developed.