A content analysis of English textbook prescribed for grade eight

Abstract

The thesis A Content Analysis of English Textbook Prescribed for Grade Eight was an attempt to identify the major content areas of the English textbook of grade eight and to point out some strengths and weaknesses. The researcher used the qualitative method to obtain the data. The study adopted textbook analysis as a design. The observation checklist served as the main tool of data collection. Similarly, to collect the data researcher followed the procedures given by Braun and Clark (2006) and the principle suggested by Cahyono and Riadini (2021) and Ur (2013). After analyzing the textbook, the result shows that the English book for grade eight covered cultural and neutral contents associated with personal to social, theoretical to practical, Himalayan to Terai, and national to international. The English textbook for grade eight consists of source culture, target culture, foreign culture, neutral culture, social, political, and educational content, technical content, and health and sports. The text related to target and international culture helped students to develop communicative competence through the textbook. The text about technology gives information about technological devices and provides some guidelines for using those devices. Moreover, the lesson on games and sports depicts the knowledge of the importance of physical exercise in human health. Besides this, the lesson district profile has provided some old information that needs to be updated. The thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter covered the background of the research, the statement of the problems, the objectives of the study, the research questions, the significance of the study, and the operational definition of the key terms. Similarly, the second chapter incorporates a review of the theoretical literature, empirical literature, the implications of the review, and the conceptual framework for this study. Likewise, the third chapter deals with methods and procedures under which the study design, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedures, analysis and interpretation procedures, and ethical considerations. In the same way, the fourth chapter consists of the results and a discussion of the study. Finally, the fifth chapter includes the conclusion and implications. Recommendations of the study as policy-related, practice-related, and further research related are suggested and included references and appendixes.