Evaluating reading-writing materials for office administration students
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(1) * Siti Maryam Solihat
Universitas Negeri Jakarta
Indonesia
(2) Darmahusni
Universitas Negeri Jakarta
Indonesia
(3) Sri Sumarni
Universitas Negeri Jakarta
Indonesia
(*) Corresponding Author
Abstract
Office Administration students at VHS require English reading-writing materials to assist them acquiring
competencies as stated in SKNNI. The present study aimed to evaluate the existing materials and seek
their relevance to SKNNI. The evaluation involved three English textbooks entitled Bahasa Inggris
SMA/MA/SMK/MAK for Grade X, XI, and XII through checklist method. The authors used an evaluative
checklist adapted from Cunningsworth (1995) and focused on three aspects — learning objective,
language content, and text type. The results show that learning objectives in all assessed textbooks
mismatch with the competencies defined in SKKNI. Likewise, language content (grammar and
vocabulary) covered in those textbooks is irrelevant with language knowledge needed as the basics to
attain the competencies in SKKNI. Then, the textbooks provide the kind of texts which are distinct from
those required by SKKNI that must be business documents. Although one topic in textbook for Grade
XII relates to office administration (about job application), it remains insufficient. To put it simply, the
findings indicate that the three textbooks do not correspond to the national standards, so they are
inappropriate for Office Administration students. Therefore, designing reading-writing materials based
on SKNNI is the future action in response to the results of this study.
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