Semantic Analysis in English High School Handbooks

Abstract

This paper aims to uncover semantics meaning found in the literary work in the English handbook of high school using a semantic approach. This study applied a descriptive qualitative method. The data in this study were phrases, sentences, and clauses that allegedly contain implicit and explicit meanings. The literary work analyzed were taken from three (3) handbooks for high school student. The results of the study showed the discovery of various types of semantic meanings in literary works found in the English handbook as teaching materials. The types of semantics meaning found in the English Handbook for high school were literal and non-literal meaning. These meanings did not appear together in one literary work, but it is spread in the literary works found in the English handbooks.

Semantic analysis of literary works in selected song lyrics and poems at English textbooks for grade XI of senior high schools

“…Regarding to the amount of figurative language found in this study, the findings of this study quite similar with the previous studies from Syarifuddin & Hasyim (2020) that the most frequent used of nonliteral meaning is Untsa Rohmah Fadillah, et al | Semantic analysis of literary......…”

“…Literary work is a production by the writers' imagination and occurred around them or based on their personal experience in the form of writing with beautiful and poetic language (Syarifuddin & Hasyim: 2020). It reflects on the social life and human culture which contains moral values and character education for the students.…”

“…Generally, the meaning in semantic terms are divided into literal meaning and nonliteral meaning. As Syarifuddin & Hasyim (2020) states there are two kinds of meaning, they are literal meaning and nonliteral meaning. These types differ in terms of conveying the meaning of written form.…”

“…The analysis of semantic meaning study of students' textbooks has been conducted by some researchers. One of them is Semantic Analysis in English High School handbooks by Syarifuddin & Hasyim (2020). They analyzed three kinds of English students' books for grade XI by Yrama Widya Publication, Yudhistira, and Grasindo publisher.…”

“…From those previous researches, there was a lack of information provided caused by limited analysis from Syarifuddin & Hasyim (2020) and limited sources being analyzed by Avillanova & Bram (2019) which are needed to be studied further. Moreover, the studies focused only finding the types of meaning found in the songs and poems without concerning of the use High Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) in 2013 curriculum textbooks which produced by another publisher such as from the Ministry of education and culture and Tiga Serangkai.…”