THE COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITIES IN “BRIGHT AN ENGLISH” TEXTBOOK

The importance and need to have communicative skills in English, teaching materials (textbooks) play an important role in teaching English. This study was conducted to determine whether the textbook is in accordance with the communicative activities proposed by Richards and Rodgers in the textbook "Bright An English". The English textbook studied is entitled “Bright An English” (ERLANGGA, 2018). The focus of this research is to analyze communicative activities in English textbooks. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method in conducting research. Textbook analysis has revealed several key findings. Data were collected using documentation analysis. In the textbook, Based on the data obtained, it is clear that there are 68 group work activities, 41 fluency activities and 42 meaningful activities in the textbook. The total percentage is 78%. This shows that the textbooks apply more CLT principles based on Richard's theory. The number of activities includes focused meaning or meaningful exercises, fluency and group work are criteria for communicative activities. The results showed that communicating activities embody the principles of communicative activities. In addition, communicative activities are considered sufficient to be used in teaching and learning English based on group assignments, fluency tasks and meaningfulness tasks