THE CONTENT ANALYSIS OF AN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK ENTITLED GET ALONG WITH ENGLISH FOR THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS BASED ON THE COMMUNICATIVE READING COMPETENCIES

drs. sigit sumarsono, m. pd.; nita kaniadewi, m. pd.;

UMMI KULSUM . NIM: 1001065229. The Content Analysis of an English Textbook entitled “Get Along with English” for the Eleventh Grade Students based on The Communicative Reading Competencies. A Paper, Jakarta, The English Study Programme, The School of Teaching Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. HAMKA, 2014.
The objective of the study is to know whether or not the reading exercises in Get Along with English for the Eleventh Grade Students are in line with the communicative reading competence. The method of the study is a descriptive comparative analysis method. In this case, the writer compared only the contents of the reading exercise in the English textbook with communicative reading competence. The instrument used in doing this research were six a checklists containing the sub skills presented by Munby‟s communicative reading subskills. Each checklist is used for recording one chapter.
The sample that the writers used in analyzing the reading exercises with the communicative reading competencies in the textbook Get Along with English are 453 reading exercises.
Based on the data analysis of the research, the percentage and frequencies can shows such as; (1) understanding explicitly stated information has 81 frequencies and 17,1 %, (2) understanding information when not explicitly stated has 6 frequencies and 1,2%, (3) understanding conceptual meaning has 33 frequencies and 6,9%, (4) understanding within the sentence has 58 frequencies and 12,2%, (5) understanding relations between the parts of a text through lexical cohesion devices has 42 frequencies and 8,8%, (6) understanding cohesion between the parts of a text through grammatical cohesion has 95 frequencies and 20,1%, (7) selective extraction of relevant points from a text has 76 frequencies and 16,1%, (8) basic reference skills has 5 frequencies and 1,0 %, (9) skimming has 11frequencies and 2,3%, (10) scanning has 46 frequencies and 9,7%.
From the findings of the research, the writer concludes that the reading exercises in Get Along with English textbook for the eleventh grade of vocational school are not in line with communicative reading competencies.