An Analysis of Language Skills’ Proportion In The English Textbook Grade XII Published by Kemendikbud 2014

The design of this research was descritive quantitative. It was aimed to find out the
suitability of english textbook with the curriculum and the proportion of the language
skills’ in the English textbook grade XII published by kemendikbud 2014. The
subject of this research was the English textbook grade XII for 1 year , consist of 16
chapters. The data was collected by using evaluation checklist that proposed by
syllabus in curricullum 2013 and the expert (Ur (1996)). The result showed that the
English Textbook Grade XII for senior high school published by Kemendikbud 2014
is categorized into “very good” category. From 27 learning objectives (KD) that
proposed by the curriculum 2013 in syllabus, 22 of it is covered to the English
textbook. The writing skill has the highest proportion it is 38 %; the second is reading
skill has 30 %; the third is speaking skill has 21 %; and the last is listening skill has
11 %. Consequently, it can be conclude that it is suit to the standard from the
government, the purpose of this English textbook is to make the students reach the
functional level of literacy and used the text – based teaching and focuss on the text.
Key terms : English Textbook, Suitability, Language Skills, 2013 Curriculum