Genre analysis of the reading texts in english on sky 2 textbook for the second grade of junior secondary school at SMPN 10 Ciputat

According to the present curriculum, School-Based Curriculum� Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan (KTSP), English textbook has to provide genres based on the functional literacy level of each grade. On this skripsi, the writer analyzed English on Sky 2 textbook published by Erlangga. The objective of this study is to find out the empirical evidence of whether or not genre of reading texts and its features in English on Sky 2 textbook in line with content standard of KTSP for the second grade students of SMPN 10 Ciputat. Referring to the objective of the study, it describes genres of the reading text, generic structures, linguistic features, social functions, and then their conformity level to KTSP. The method used in this study was document analysis. The data were gathered from English on Sky 2 textbook for the second grade of Junior Secondary School students and from the KTSP. After obtaining the data, the writer analyzed the data from the genre of reading texts in the textbooks with the KTSP by calculating the percentage of the data from the analysis. The findings of the study are the types of reading text provided in English on Sky 2 textbook are descriptive (25%), recount (50%) and narrative (25%). The writer also found present tense, future tense, and past continuous tense that are applied in one recount text. In one narrative text, it is also found present tense and future tense and it does not enclose past continuous tense. To sum up the result, the writer concludes that three genres of reading text and their three features (social function, generic structure and linguistic feature) attain the result 100%. It means excellent as the criteria of conformity level. Based on the findings, it is suggested that the readers and researchers obtain the knowledge to select and to increase the quality of the enclosed genre of reading text and its features in the textbook that in line with KTSP