Moral Values in English Textbook: “When English Rings a Bell”

Abstract

This research was aimed to know about moral values in the textbook. Textbooks were analyzed by using critical discourse analysis (CDA) data was obtained through analyzing the whole texts. This study attempts to examined the moral values which appeared in the English textbook "When English Rings a Bell" for seventh of Junior high school or equivalent based on the curriculum and presidential decree to teach character education to students, which included 18 moral values and to describe the moral values represented in the practice of conversational texts. It was designed as content analysis in the form of descriptive qualitative research. The result of this study were (1) The most apparently of moral values found in the English textbook were social awareness, curiosity, and responsibility, and (2) Moral values in English textbook was found in the conversation text through implicitly in the form of a moral message conveyed by the writer. it can be concluded that the authors of this textbook focus more on social values such as social awareness, curiosity, responsibility in the form of teaching moral values as character education for students at an early age. Then, the textbook was contained the moral values based on the presidential decree about character education. The textbook was quite good, but it can be improved. Keywords: Moral Value, English Textbook, Critical Discourse Analysis

Critical Discourse Analysis of Moral Values in EFL Textbook for Senior High School

“…This means that in every textbook, there are moral values. Kusramadhani et al (2022) state that every textbook has moral values. This shows that material is presented, and many moral values are usually kept secret.…”

The Representation of Character Education in the English Textbook Entitled Bahasa Inggris Untuk SMA/MA/SMK/MAK Kelas XI

“…English textbooks have great potential for building characters because language learning can indirectly instill various consciousness through reading texts, pictures, dialogues, and sentences in the required exercises [13,20]. Thus, studies have been conducted to identify the character education values included in English textbooks used in English classrooms across Indonesia [18,[21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]. While [21,[23][24][25]27] identified the inclusion of character education in junior high school textbooks, [18,26,28,29] chose to analyze the representation of character education in senior high school textbooks.…”

“…Thus, studies have been conducted to identify the character education values included in English textbooks used in English classrooms across Indonesia [18,[21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]. While [21,[23][24][25]27] identified the inclusion of character education in junior high school textbooks, [18,26,28,29] chose to analyze the representation of character education in senior high school textbooks. Among these studies, [29] and [28] took the perspective of the eighteen values of character education recommended by the Ministry in 2010, while [26] focused on analyzing the national identity in terms of Indonesian local moral values in the textbook for eleventh grade.…”