Abstract
To help students successful in global future, 21stcentury skills have become important aspects to enable them to function appropriately and effectively within a global community of English language speakers. Students have to be facilitated with learning materials that are suitable with this demand. This study aims to reveal the 21stcentury skills that are integrated in the English textbook and to find out how those skills are integrated. The data were gathered using checklists and analyzed by calculating the number of occurrences of each skill of 21stcentury and identifying the strategies used in its integration. The results showed that there are 11 skills integrated in the textbook namely critical thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity and innovation, information and communication technology (ICT), media literacy, leadership and responsibility, productivity and accountability, social and cross-cultural, initiative and self-direction, and flexibility and adaptability. Those skills are integrated through Nunan’s task components namely goals, inputs, procedures, teacher roles, learner roles, settings, and other strategies including notes, quotes, and points to ponder.
Highlights
Learning materials are essential in the teaching and learning process
Based on the analysis of the English textbook, it was found that there are 11 skills of 21st century integrated in both textbooks
The following table shows the integration of 21st century skills in the English textbook
Summary
Learning materials are essential in the teaching and learning process. Among many learning materials, textbooks often become the only learning materials which are used by the teachers in the classrooms. Many scholars believe that teachers mostly depend on textbooks as the main teaching resources in classrooms. Teachers have high dependency in using textbooks as the main resources of teaching and learning process. Textbooks do help teachers in teaching the lesson in the classroom, but they are used in pre-teaching activities as textbooks can be used as flexible syllabi for teaching and learning process. It is in line with Richards (2001) stating that textbooks provide ideas on how to plan and teach lessons. Textbooks play an important role as main learning resources that are beneficial for both teachers and learners
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