An Analysis of The Relevance between The Content of The English Textbook “Headlines” for Grade XII and “Focal Point” by BSNP

Abstract

The research is aimed to investigate the relevance between the focused materials in the English Textbook “Headlines” for grade XII and the criteria demanded by Focal Point. This research used qualitative research. This study used content analysis as the methodology. Based on the findings of analyzing the content of the textbook "Headlines" for XII grade of high school, it is found that the textbook content only fulfilled the 11 (eleven) points criteria of the focal point with a total of 31 points from A, B, and C of relevancy and it even did not reach half of the total. Therefore, it can be concluded that the textbook's content and related activities should be redesigned by following the criteria of Focal Point.

Students’ Interest Level In Learning Listening By Using Note-Taking Strategy

“…Apart from being considered that listening is very important in daily communication, listening is also defined as the essential skills in English subject that must be learned and mastered by students in school, especially in high senior school. Accordance with one of the objectives of Kurikulum Merdeka, it describes that students must have a good English communicative competence in multimodal texts, namely oral, written, visual, and audiovisual (Sukmawati, et al, 2023), and comprehend reading text (Finandiati, et al, 2022;Nurwanti, 2022;Sasabone, et al, 2022). Therefore, listening skills are the initial skill needed to learn by students at various levels for understanding the multimodal texts.…”