The Reading Exercises In The English Textbook Entitled “English In Focus” for The Eight Grade Students of Junior High School 171 Jakarta in the 2015/2016 Academic Year; A Content Analysis based on The Communicative Reading Competencies.

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YULITA NURFAJRIA . NIM: 1101065109 . The Reading Exercises In The
English Textbook Entitled “English In Focus” for The Eight Grade Students of
Junior High School 171 Jakarta in the 2015/2016 Academic Year; A Content
Analysis 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, 2016.
The objective of the study was to know whether or not the reading
exercises in English in focus for the eighth Grade Students were in line with the
communicative reading competence. The method of the study was a descriptive
comparative analysis method. In this case, the writer compared the contents of the
reading exercises in the English textbook with the communicative reading
competence. The instrument used in doing this research was checklists containing
the sub-skills presented by Munby‟s communicative reading sub-skills. Each
checklist was used for recording one chapter. The samples that the writer used in
analyzing the reading exercises with the communicative reading competencies in
the textbook English in Focus were 184 reading exercises.
Based on the data analysis of the research, the following percentage and
frequencies are; (1) deducing the meaning and use of unfamiliar lexical items has
13 frequencies and 2,4% (2) getting explicitly stated information has 56
frequencies and 10,6% (3) getting information when not explicitly stated has 20
frequencies and 3,8% (4) getting the communicative values (function) of
sentences and utterances has 1 frequency and 0,1% (5) getting relations between
the parts of a text through lexical has 4 frequencies and 0,7% (6) getting cohesion
between parts of a text through grammatical cohesion devices has 23 frequencies
and 4,3% (7) identifying the main point or important information in a piece of
discourse has 1 frequency and 0,1% (8) basic reference skills has 4 frequencies
and 0,7% (9) skimming has 6 frequencies and 1,1% (10) scanning to locate
specifically required information has 56 frequencies and 10,6%
From the findings of the research, the writer concludes that the reading
exercises in English in Focus textbook for the eighth grade students of junior high
school are not in line with communicative reading exercises.