AN EVALUATION OF ENGLISH TEXTBOOK ENTITLED “KIDDIE 1” FOR KINDERGARTEN IN ENGLISH STUDY CENTRE

Masrobi Masrobi, Susilawati Susilawati

Abstract


English textbook has become one of resource necessary for an effective language teaching program in most non-English speaking countries’ schools. Therefore, the teacher must be able to choose the right and appropriate English textbook for use in teaching. For those reasons, this present research is aimed to evaluate English textbook entitled “Kiddie 1” specialized for kindergarten students at English Study Centre Cirebon. It is to know whether the textbook is feasible for kindergarten students or not. This research employed qualitative research with a content analysis design.  English Study Centre’s English textbook entitled "Kiddie 1" was used as the object of the research. English Study Centre is one of English courses in Cirebon. The book is intended for kindergarten. The instrument used in this research was developed and modified based on Varela‘s checklist for textbook evaluation. Triangulation was applied when two curriculum development staff of ESC were asked to evaluate the textbook based on the checklist given. After the data were analysed, it was found that the feasibility of English textbook entitled “Kiddie 1” reached 81.87% or categorized as good. Hence, English textbook “Kiddie 1” is considerably feasible to use for kindergarten students.
Keywords: English textbook, Varela’s checklist, textbook evaluation, kindergarten

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12928/iucee2022.v1i1,%20March.9021

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