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This research was intended to observe, evaluate, and discover the quality of the speaking materials which appear in Think Globally Act Locally textbook for ninth grade of junior high school published by the Ministry of Education and Culture 2018 revised edition. Researchers evaluated the speaking materials by using the Scott’s theory of good speaking materials. It was conducted by using descriptive qualitative research design. The research object was Think Globally Act Locally textbook, specifically the whole speaking materials on that book. The instruments consisted of evaluation table, documentation, and interview. The data were collected through six necessary steps, included (1) read the textbook thoroughly, (2) find out all the speaking materials, (3) observe all the speaking materials that was found, (4) identify the speaking materials regarding to the four criteria, (5) report the data through evaluation table, and (6) present the data in detail. The result of this study showed that there were 40 speaking materials found in the textbook, 30 of them filled the category of “good”, and 10 others reached the category of “sufficient”. In conclusion, overall the speaking materials in this textbook were classified as good. Therefore, researchers recommend this textbook to be implemented as the main source for speaking activities in classroom interaction.
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References
Aristiawan, D. & Herman. (2021). Content and language analysis “Think Globally Act Locally” for junior high school published by ministry of education and culture of Indonesia. Yavana Bhasha: Journal of English Language Education, 4(2), 58-66. https://doi.org/10/25078/yb.v4i2.2272
Ary, D., Jacobs, L. C., Sorensen, C., & Razavieh, A. (2010). Introduction to research in education (8th ed.). Wadsworth, USA: Cengange Learning.
Ayu, M. & Indrawati, R. (2018). EFL textbook evaluation: The analysis of tasks presented in English textbook. TEKNOSASTIK 16(1), 21-25. https://dx.doi.org/10.33365/ts.v16i1.87
Basra, S. M. & Purnawarman, P. (2018). An evaluation of English e-book “Think Globally Act Locally” for the ninth graders. Journal of English as a Foreign Language, 8(1), 57-74. https://dx.doi.org/10.23971v8i1.647
Chaqiqi, M. N. (2017). Analysis of speaking materials in the course book entitled “Scaffolding” for grade vii. [Undergraduate Thesis, Sunan Ampel State Islamic University, Surabaya].
Dang, T.N.Y., Webb, S., & Coxhead, A. (2022). Evaluating lists of high-frequency words: Teachers’ and learners’ perspectives. Language Teaching Research, 26(4), 617-641. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362168820911189
Fitriani. (2021). An Analysis of speaking materials in English textbook When English Rings a Bell for grade viii junior high school published by ministry of education and culture 2017. [Undergraduate Thesis, University of Bengkulu, Bengkulu].
Gay, L.R., Mills, G. E., & Airasian, P. W. (2012). Educational research: competencies for analysis and applications. United States of America: Pearson Education, Inc.
Handayani, S., Suwarno, B. & Dharmayana, I W. (2018). Evaluation of Indonesian English textbook for the ninth graders of junior high school “Think Globally Act Locally” from EFL teachers’ perspectives. JOALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature), 3(2), 11-32. https://doi.org/10.33369/joall.v3i2.6281
Kayi, H. (2006, November). Teaching speaking: activities to promote speaking in a second language. http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Kayi-TeachingSpeaking.html
Lekatompessy, F. M. (2019). Evaluation of survival English textbook used in teaching speaking for first semester students in English education study program. IJET, 8(2), 73-78. https://doi.org/10.15642/ijet2.2019.8.2.7378
Miles, M.B., & Huberman, A.M. (1994). An expanded sourcebook: Qualitative data analysis. London, England: Sage Publications.
Mohammadi, M. & Abdi, H. (2014). Textbook evaluation: a case study. Proceedings of the International Conference on Current Trends in ELT. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.03.528
Morse, J. M., Barret, M., Mayan, M., Olson, K., & Spiers, J. (2002). Verification strategies for establishing reliability and validity in qualitative research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 1(2), 13-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/160940690200100202
Ratmanida & Suryanti, Y. (2020). An analysis of speaking materials in English textbook for the tenth grade of senior high school. Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language and Arts (ICLA-2019). Padang: Universitas Negeri Padang, 90-95. https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.2008.017
Rifiyanti, H. (2018). Listening and speaking skills in “English in Mind” textbook based on the 2013 curriculum. INFERENCE: Journal of English Language Teaching, 1(2), 29-33. https://dx.doi.org/10.30998/inference.v1i2.5409
Scott, T. (2005). How to teach speaking. United States of America: Pearson Longman.
Silverman, D. (2013). A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about qualitative research (2nd ed.). London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications.
Sugiyono. (2013). Metode penelitian pendidikan pendekatan kuantitatif, kualitatif, dan r&d. Bandung, Indonesia: Alfabeta.
Timmis, I. (2016). Materials to develop speaking skill. Issues in Material Development, 83-92. https://doi.org/10.1007/9789463004329_009
Williams, D. (1983). Developing criteria for textbook evaluation. ELT Journal, 37(3), 251-255. https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/37.3.251