Detail A Critical Assessment of Vocabulary Items in English Textbooks for Indonesian Junior High School Students Bibliografi Author: SITUMORANG, JON PITER ; Moeliono, Anton M. (Advisor) Topik: ENGLISH LANGUAGE TESTING; ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS; VOCABULARIES Bahasa: (EN )     Penerbit: Applied English Linguistics Program Graduate School Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia     Tempat Terbit: Jakarta    Tahun Terbit: 2000     Jenis: Theses - Master Thesis Fulltext: jhon piter situmorang thesis.pdf (2.61MB; 28 download) Ketersediaan Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: T 35 Non-tandon: 2 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Abstract This study deals with the description of the vocabulary items in English textbooks for junior high school students. It aims at finding the extent to which the textbooks cover the vocabulary items of the 1994 English Curriculum and Basic English vocabulary items, how the textbook writers viewed vocabulary how they organized words into lesson units as well as how they implemented word reinforcement in textbooks. The textbooks that I chose as the main source of data is Bahasa Inggris untuk SLTP. These books are the compulsory textbooks for junior high school students in Jakarta. As its counterpart I used West's General Service List of Engiish Words. This book is considered to contain all Basic English Words. In addition I also used the 1994 English Curriculum, particularly the syllabus containing vocabulary items. This syllabus contains words that the students have to know. In collecting the data I used VBPro Programmed (Miller, 1995). This program provided me with lists of all words of the textbooks in alphabetical order. Besides this, the program also provided me with word frequencies. The results of the study are as follows. First, from the comparison between the vocabulary items of the textbooks and the vocabulary items of the 1994 curriculum I found that the textbooks contained 813 vocabulary items of the 1994 English curriculum or 77.79 per cent. Meanwhile the comparison between the vocabulary items of the textbooks and the General Service List shows that the textbooks contain 2933, out of which 1642 are words that can be found in the General Service List. This means that the General Service List covers only 62% of the vocabulary items of the textbooks. Dealing with the organization of the vocabulary items I have found that the textbook writers did not organize them on the basis of topics or themes. I concluded it on the basis of two facts: (1) the textbooks contain only 813 words or 77.79 percent of the 1994 English curriculum. In addition, the number of the words that the curriculum has decided for each topic is far less than the number of the words in each lesson unit (less than ten per cent) and (2) the vocabulary items of the curriculum which should have been the target of the vocabulary teaching and learning were not well reinforced. Out of 801, 409 (50.30%) words of the English curriculum occur less than five times. It is, then, fair to conclude that what controls or restricts the vocabulary items of the textbooks is only grammaticalness. Concerning the patterns of reinforcement of the vocabulary items I found that the patterns range very widely. Only 721 words (25.8 per cent) of the textbooks occur five times or more. Based on the results of the study I would not suggest the use of those textbooks for junior high school students. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Lihat Sejarah Pengadaan  Konversi Metadata   Kembali

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