A content analysis of the English textbook "Primary English as a Second Language"

Textbook is one of the media used in English language learning. A great number of EFL textbook evaluation have been done to find the most suitable textbook for English language teaching. The present study was aimed to determine the suitability of materials in the textbook “Primary English of a Second Language” with the criteria of a good English textbook. The textbook was analyzed by using criteria of a good English textbook proposed by experts include five criteria: aim and objective, facilitate teaching learning process, activity/exercises, and vocabulary. In the textbook, there are 25 materials that will be evaluated using the criteria of a good English textbook. The result of the study shows that objectives of the lessons in textbook meet the criteria of a good English textbook. In facilitating teaching learning process, from 25 materials provided there is one material that does not meet with the criteria because do not provided any contextual example. However, for the exercises in the textbook do not match with the criteria of a good English textbook because do not incorporate by pair/group work and should be improved later. Then in vocabulary aspect also do not meet the criteria of a good English textbook because from 25 chapters there are ten chapters that do not present new vocabulary in the subsequent materials. However, some missing in the textbook can be improved by giving supplementary materials while teaching the particular material