Sulistyaningrum, Fitriana (2015) AN ANALYSIS OF CHARACTERS IN THE TEXTS OF AN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK ENTITLED CONTEXTUAL ENGLISH FOR GRADE XI OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS REGULAR PROGRAM. S1 thesis, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta.
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Abstract
The objectives of this research are (1) to identify embedded characters that can be found in the texts of an English textbook entitled Contextual English for Grade XI of Senior High Schools Regular Program, and (2) to describe the techniques of integrating characters in the texts of an English textbook entitled Contextual English for Grade XI of Senior High Schools Regular Program. This study was descriptive-qualitative approach using content analysis. The data used in this study were in the forms of texts in the textbook. In this research, the quantitative data were also used to describe the occurrence of the data to support the qualitative findings. The primary instrument of the research was the researcher and the data sheet was also employed as the second instrument. Some steps were undertaken during the data collection: reading the texts carefully, understanding specific parts related to the research focus intensively, marking certain parts related to the research focus, making a description of the data accompanied by a coding process and inserting the data into the table. In analyzing data, this study used content analysis technique by comparing the data, making categorization, presenting data tabulation, describing verbally, and interpreting the findings to do the inference. The subjects were 33 texts in English textbook entitled Contextual English for Grade XI of Senior High Schools Regular Program. The objects were the 18 characters described by Kemendiknas. This research used credibility, dependability and conformability to check the trustworthiness of the data. The results showed that there were two points of findings discussed in this research. First, related to the occurrence of characters, all 18 characters described by Kemendiknas were found in the texts of an English textbook entitled Contextual English for Grade XI of Senior High Schools Regular Program. Social awareness character was the most dominant character found in the texts with 13 data or 15%. It implied that the author wanted to raise the students’ social awareness to other humans. Second, related to the techniques of integrating characters, there were two techniques found in the texts, namely explicit and implicit technique. The implicit technique was more dominant in the texts with 92 data or 82.9%. This result showed that the author seemed to pay attention to the cognitive and affective aspects of the students in which at their age, they have been able to think critically and to understand the implied meaning.
| Item Type: | Thesis (S1) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | characters, techniques of integrating characters, texts |
| Subjects: | Bahasa dan Sastra > Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Bahasa, Seni dan Budaya (FBSB) > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris |
| Depositing User: | Admin Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris FBS |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Apr 2015 07:16 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Jan 2019 20:50 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/16178 |
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