Analysis of Reading Material and Students’ Perception Towards Buku Bahasa Inggris at Grade X Semester II of SMAN 4 Payakumbuh

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10.2991/assehr.k.210325.011How to use a DOI?

Keywords

reading material, perception, reading text, reading task

Abstract

The aim of this research is to describe how are reading materials in Buku Bahasa Inggris in aspect texts and task viewed from teachers’ and researcher’s perception and also the perception of the students toward this reading materials in this students’ textbook. The main source of teaching materials comes from textbook. This research analyzes reading materials in students’ English textbook of 2013 curriculum for grade X semester II. Source of the data in this research is divided into two. First is analysis checklist of reading materials in the students’ English textbook of 2013 curriculum for grade X semester II filled by three analysts? Two analysts are English teachers at SMAN 4 Payakumbuh and the other one is researcher herself. The checklist includes two indicators of reading material that are texts and tasks of reading materials. Second is the questionnaire of students’ perception toward reading materials. After all the collected, it found that the reading texts in this textbook have fulfilled the criteria. The aspects are interest, authenticity, cultural background knowledge, layout, visual, and value. On the other hand, the lexical knowledge in the reading text is not suitable with the students’ level. There are too many unfamiliar words found in each reading text. Then, the reading tasks in the students’ English textbook do not provide variety of questions in the task. There was not any question that reflected guessing meaning from the context. Last, the students viewed that the reading text are too long and many difficult words that make them cannot understand the text well and hard to answer the questions in reading tasks.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Elsa Sastrawati
AU  - Hermawati Syarif
AU  - Muhammad Al Hafizh
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/03/26
TI  - Analysis of Reading Material and Students’ Perception Towards Buku Bahasa Inggris at Grade X Semester II of SMAN 4 Payakumbuh
BT  - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language and Arts (ICLA 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 57
EP  - 60
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210325.011
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210325.011
ID  - Sastrawati2021
ER  -