Content Analysis on English Textbook For Tourism Class

Abstract

Textbook is one of the most important things in teaching and learning process. It provides material related to what will discuss in a class, course, or lecturing. It should fulfill some aspects, so it can help the students and teachers in teaching and learning process. This study has two research objectives: (1) Whether the teaching material is matching with the syllabus. (2) Whether the teaching material fulfill the criteria from Hutchinson and Alan Water (1987). Approach in this study is using descriptive qualitative. The research setting took place at SMKN 4 Banjarmasin (eleventh grade). Subject of research is a textbook entitled “Practice Your English Competence for Vocational High School Grade XI”. Instrument and indicator of this research are criteria from Hutchinson and Alan Water (1987) and Syllabus of English SMKN 4 Banjarmasin grade 11 2019/2020. The data were collected by documentation procedure. The data were analyzed using checklist from the syllabus and the criteria. Afterwards, the data were analyzed to answer the research questions. The findings show the textbook fulfilled 11 units on the syllabus. For the criteria, the textbook fulfilled 8 criteria from 9 criteria. For the syllabus, the textbook fulfilled all units on the syllabus. For the criteria, the textbook did not fulfill two criteria fully. In conclusion, the textbook is matched with the syllabus and the criteria. However, the textbook did not fulfill the aspects and criteria fully. Nevertheless, the textbook can still be used in teaching and learning process. Then, it is suggested to conduct further research related to content analysis and textbook analysis to this research.