The ministry of education has provided English textbook curriculum 2013
revised edition 2017 for eighth grade, the textbook cover name Bahasa Inggris
When English Rings a Bell. While, textbook publishers have also facilitated some
English textbook based on this curriculum as a sample the researcher has taken the
textbook entitled Headline English 2 which published by Yrama Widya: Srikandi
Empat.
The objective of this study were: (1) to examine the appropriateness of
textbooks used by English teachers based on the criteria synthesized (2) to discover
whether textbooks used by English have fulfilled the criteria of good textbooks.
This research categorized into qualitative research and used document analysis
technique. The objective of this research was to describe the quality of the English
textbook in terms of content aspect, language aspect, and presentation aspect. The
technique of data analysis in this research done by using instrument of textbook
evaluation by BSNP that analyze all aspect of the textbook.
The result showed that When English Rings a Bell for eighth grade have
fulfilled the criteria of a good textbook by achieving the average fulfillment score
of 75%. The fulfillment score of 67% for relevance of materials to the curriculum,
57% for materials accuracy, 57% for supporting learning materials, 80% for
language appropriateness, 100% for presentation technique, 100% for teaching and
learning technique, and 70% for presentation coverage. On the other hand, Headline
English 2 for junior high-school students grade VIII, have fulfilled the criteria of a
good textbook by achieving the average fulfillment score 88%. The fulfillment
score of 83% for relevance of materials to the curriculum, 86% for materials
accuracy, 64% for supporting learning materials, 100% for language
appropriateness, 100% for presentation technique, 100% for teaching and learning
technique, and 80% for presentation coverage. It was then recommended that
teachers need to modify the tasks and activities on both textbooks which did not
fulfilled the criteria of good textbooks especially in the area of content, language,
and presentation aspects.