English Material Development Based on Scientific Approach: A Content Analysis of “When English Rings a Bell” Course Book

Abstract

Government has launched the 2013 curriculum four years ago. It becomesone of interests to be investigated. Pros and cons have been raised toward thisnew implemented curriculum. In 2014, a revision of the 2013 curriculum coursebook entitled “When English Rings the Bell” had been done. A content analysisstudy is needed toward the implementation of the 2013 curriculum for the sake ofmaterial development. This study aims to investigate whether or not the revisedof the 2013 curriculum course book entitled “When English Rings a Bell” is inline with the theory of scientific approach. This study used qualitative descriptivemethod to describe the results.

Character Education Analysis Represented in English Textbooks for Secondary School Based on the 2013 Curriculum in Indonesia

“…This section focuses on the 18-character values and 4 characters from Thomas Lickona. The result of character values from the textbook When English Rings A Bells (Nimasari, 2016) 12,25,31,35,36,37,38,43,54,62,72,73,79 Then, the following table is the result from the textbook Think Globally Act Locally (Wijayanti, 2016). 4,5,6,10,11,13,20,27,28,29,31,37,38,41,43,47,48,51,57,58,64,65,66,69,90,91) • Creativity -Yes -Frequency: 11x (page: 20,31,45,48,51,56,62, 66, 74, 76, 85) • Independence -Yes -Frequency: 2x (page: 57,120) • Curiosity -Yes -Frequency: 12x (page: 34,35,36,37,39,40,42,47,51,62,64,84) • Reading Interest -Yes -Frequency: 8x (page: 11,37,54,57,74, 81,83,84) • Responsibility -Yes -Frequency: 6x (page: 12,16,32,51,52, 78) Value Related to Others • Tolerance -No -Frequency: 0 • Democracy -Yes -Frequency: 3x...…”

A Review of Public Speaking Coursebook: A Product of English Language Center Curriculum Research and Development

“…Designed for academic tertiary context, the material is definitely supported by theoretical research framework from public speaking experts as can be reviewed in the figure 5 below. Answering the gaps that the studies highlighted [1]- [3], the coursebook yields useful tips and advice in a particular layout to be easily learnt by the students. This guidance is given to help students' difficulties during their efforts in the public speaking course program.…”

“…This can be used to measure and evaluate students' comprehension of the lesson. Moreover, this tasks and authentic materials for public speaking topics facilitate an effective rehearsal to improve students' confident and ability performing a good public speaking in front of audience [3], [25]. Linguistic aspect competence such as pronunciation and parts of speech is given following example texts that can be used for students.…”