Educational Characters on English Textbook Used by English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Teachers

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the English textbooks used by teachers in the learning and teaching process and to determine the suitability of the character education values in English textbooks with the character education values set in the 2013 curriculum. The English text used is 12 values of character education out of 18 total values of character education in the 2013 curriculum. The research design used is descriptive qualitative research method because the data collected is in the form of words and does not use numbers. The researcher chose this method because the data obtained were descriptive data, then analyzed and described in the form of words and language. descriptive qualitative is a research method that utilizes qualitative data and is described descriptively.

The results showed that the value of character education in English textbooks used by teachers in the teaching and learning process did not fully contain the value of character education in the 2013 curriculum. There were only 12 values of character education from 18 values of character education based on the 2013 curriculum in the English textbook. Which means that there are 6 values of character education based on the 2013 curriculum that are not contained in the English textbook. As a conclusion, the suitability between the values of character education in English textbooks and character education in the 2013 curriculum is not fully appropriate

Keywords: the value of character education, curriculum 2013