Learning and teaching cannot be separated from textbooks which have a big
role in the learning process. Textbooks serve as a guide for teachers in planning and
managing learning well, although they cannot meet all teaching and learning needs,
textbooks always contribute to improving the quality of education. In textbooks, of
course there are assessments that have been designed according to the curriculum.
One of the elements considered in the assessment is skill. Based on this, the
researcher is interested in examining (1) types of assessment on speaking skills, and
(2) types of assessment on writing skills. The researcher obtained the data by
analyzing the Grade X “Work in Progress” English textbook, focusing on each task
in each chapter.
This study uses library research. Researchers collected data through
documentation, namely in the English textbook "Work in Progress". This research
is content analysis using theory from Krippendorff which consists of six steps of
data analysis procedure: Unitilizing, Sampling, Recording/coding, Reducing data,
Inferring Contextual Phenomena, and Narrating the Answers. Then, the data
generated is on the types of speaking assessments in this book, namely, intensive
speaking, responsive speaking, interactive speaking and extensive speaking. Then,
in the types of writing assessment, there are imitative writing, intensive writing,
responsive and extensive writing.