KELAYAKAN KARYA TULIS PENULIS CILIK SEBAGAI BAHAN AJAR BAHASA INGGRIS

Abstract

In foreign language context, English is taught mostly in classroom. Providing a lot
of exposures should be considered by the teachers. Textbook is one of the way can
be used in the process of teaching-learning English. This study aims to investigate
the strategies used by the teacher when she or he choose an appropriate and ideal
text book which is fit in with thr situation and condition of the student. To collect
the data, the researcher make same analysis to 20 books title “Kecil Kecil Punya
Karya†(KKPK) and make some interviews with the writer and the readers of these
books. The findings revealed that this book effective as a part of textbook we used in
the classroom. This study indicated that there some improvements of students`
English ability in terms of quality such as effectiveness, content, vocabulary. The
respondents said that the love this textbook because the story is the reflection of
their life. And it makes the interesting to read it. The research shows that KKPK
include in the category of “appropriate†and “almost appropriateâ€, with the lowest
percentage 53,57 % dan the highest percentage 76,19%. So we can conclude that
teacher can use KKPK as one of the English textbook in the classroom.