Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language and Arts (ICLA 2020)

Analysis of Reading Material and Students’ Perception Towards Buku Bahasa Inggris at Grade X Semester II of SMAN 4 Payakumbuh

Authors
Elsa Sastrawati, Hermawati Syarif, Muhammad Al Hafizh
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Elsa Sastrawati
Available Online 26 March 2021.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.210325.011How to use a DOI?
Keywords
reading material, perception, reading text, reading task
Abstract

The aim of this research is to describe how are reading materials in Buku Bahasa Inggris in aspect texts and task viewed from teachers’ and researcher’s perception and also the perception of the students toward this reading materials in this students’ textbook. The main source of teaching materials comes from textbook. This research analyzes reading materials in students’ English textbook of 2013 curriculum for grade X semester II. Source of the data in this research is divided into two. First is analysis checklist of reading materials in the students’ English textbook of 2013 curriculum for grade X semester II filled by three analysts? Two analysts are English teachers at SMAN 4 Payakumbuh and the other one is researcher herself. The checklist includes two indicators of reading material that are texts and tasks of reading materials. Second is the questionnaire of students’ perception toward reading materials. After all the collected, it found that the reading texts in this textbook have fulfilled the criteria. The aspects are interest, authenticity, cultural background knowledge, layout, visual, and value. On the other hand, the lexical knowledge in the reading text is not suitable with the students’ level. There are too many unfamiliar words found in each reading text. Then, the reading tasks in the students’ English textbook do not provide variety of questions in the task. There was not any question that reflected guessing meaning from the context. Last, the students viewed that the reading text are too long and many difficult words that make them cannot understand the text well and hard to answer the questions in reading tasks.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language and Arts (ICLA 2020)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
26 March 2021
ISBN
10.2991/assehr.k.210325.011
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.210325.011How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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