TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVES TOWARD THE USE OF ENGLISH TEXTBOOK AT THE EVELENTH GRADE OF SMAN 1 BANDAR LAMPUNG

Indah, Octaviani (2024) TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVES TOWARD THE USE OF ENGLISH TEXTBOOK AT THE EVELENTH GRADE OF SMAN 1 BANDAR LAMPUNG. Diploma thesis, UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Textbooks play an essential role in determining the students’ success in teaching learning process since they are as the primary agent of conveying the knowledge to the students. Tok argues that since English teachers use textbooks in their class, they have the right to be involved in the process of evaluation in order to provide with the relevant textbook for their specific student group. It is to identify the weak and strong points in relation to their own teaching situation. Grant claims that the perfect book does not exist, yet the aim is to find out the best possible one that will fit and be appropriate to a particular student group. This research describes teachers' perspectives toward the use of textbook for the Eleventh grade students. The objectives of this research were, to investigate teachers’ perspectives and to find out the factors that influence teachers' perspectives toward the use of textbook for the eleventh grade students. In doing this research, the researcher used qualitative descriptive method. The informants of the research were two English teachers who taught second grade at SMA N 1 Bandar Lampung. The collecting of the data used interview, open questionnaire and document analysis. The techniques of analyzing the data used data condensation, data display, and drawing conclusions used triangulation to check the validity of the data. The results of this research were: (1) T1 & T2 perceive textbook positively in several ways: (a) subject matter is in accordance with the curriculum, presented logically and systematically (b) vocabulary and structure are presented from simple to complex forms (c) exercises are presented realistically, can test student communication and vocabulary, (d) illustrations are presented in fun, simple, clear and attractive manner, (e) physical appearance is presented with clear, attractive and colourful. However, the T1 & T2 also perceive textbook negatively that (a) The textbook does not present a clear summary of the material (b) there is some material that is not up- to- date (c) the structure of language and sentences are not in accordance with the abilities of students in this school (d) textbook is too big and thick for students. (2) there are several factors that influence teachers’ perception of textbook at this school from T1 & T2, these are personal experience, need, situation, students' ability, students’ interest, workshop/training, and references. Key words: Teachers’ Perspectives, Textbook use, English textbook

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