Scientific Approach-Based Textbooks Evaluation: A Content Analysis of English Textbooks on Reflective Teaching in Indonesia

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10.2991/assehr.k.200529.137How to use a DOI?

Keywords

English textbooks, content analysis, evaluation, reflective teaching

Abstract

The implementation of scientific approach to English as a foreign language teaching faces challenge. The use of Textbooks prepared by the education ministry is expected to be able to provide the effectiveness and flexibility of the teaching to achieve the learning goals. The principles of reflective teaching cannot be separated from the process of English language teaching. This study is aimed at evaluating the Textbooks freely provided by the ministry of education, so-called BSE. A content analysis study was done to see the implementation of scientific approach, student-centred approach, and reflective teaching in textbooks. The principles of scientific approach, student-centred approach, and reflective teaching in foreign language teaching and learning are considered on the textbooks. The textbooks evaluated were English Textbooks for grades 7, 8, and 9. The findings present the surface level of each of the approach. The scientific approach has not been employed in the textbooks. The principles of student-centred learning are also still on the learner-centred teaching not on the knowledge-centred, assessment-centred, and community-centred. Finally, the reflective approach is underlain both in the middle and the end of the textbooks. The reflection moves on the students’ evaluation of their learning materials achievement and less on their character-building aspect. The results of the study are expected to be the evaluation of the textbooks for the betterment of the books and so with the English teaching and learning process.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Umi Rachmawati
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/04
TI  - Scientific Approach-Based Textbooks Evaluation: A Content Analysis of English Textbooks on Reflective Teaching in Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities, Economics and Social Sciences (BIS-HESS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 655
EP  - 660
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200529.137
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200529.137
ID  - Rachmawati2020
ER  -