Evaluating reading-writing materials for office administration students

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 Ingg...

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Main Authors: Siti Maryam Solihat, Darmahusni, Sri Sumarni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitas Muhammadiyah Sidoarjo 2021-03-01
Series:JEES (Journal of English Educators Society)
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Online Access:https://journal.umsida.ac.id/index.php/jees/article/view/656
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author Siti Maryam Solihat
Darmahusni
Sri Sumarni
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Sri Sumarni
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description 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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spelling doaj.art-f8731f912c37470aa16de9133b9ce7a52022-12-21T17:15:42ZengUniversitas Muhammadiyah SidoarjoJEES (Journal of English Educators Society)2503-34922021-03-0161525810.21070/jees.v6i1.656656Evaluating reading-writing materials for office administration studentsSiti Maryam Solihat0Darmahusni1Sri Sumarni2Universitas Negeri JakartaUniversitas Negeri JakartaUniversitas Negeri JakartaOffice 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.https://journal.umsida.ac.id/index.php/jees/article/view/656evaluation, reading-writing materials, office administration, skkni
spellingShingle Siti Maryam Solihat
Darmahusni
Sri Sumarni
Evaluating reading-writing materials for office administration students
JEES (Journal of English Educators Society)
evaluation, reading-writing materials, office administration, skkni
title Evaluating reading-writing materials for office administration students
title_full Evaluating reading-writing materials for office administration students
title_fullStr Evaluating reading-writing materials for office administration students
title_full_unstemmed Evaluating reading-writing materials for office administration students
title_short Evaluating reading-writing materials for office administration students
title_sort evaluating reading writing materials for office administration students
topic evaluation, reading-writing materials, office administration, skkni
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