THE REPRESENTATION OF MORAL VALUES EMBEDDED IN THE ENGLISH FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEXTBOOK AT THE TWELFTH GRADE FOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL: A MICRO SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS

Sutrisno, Risa (2023) THE REPRESENTATION OF MORAL VALUES EMBEDDED IN THE ENGLISH FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEXTBOOK AT THE TWELFTH GRADE FOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL: A MICRO SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KH Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Risa Alfianti, 2023: The Representation of Moral Values Embedded In The English Foreign Language Textbook At the Twelfth Grade For Senior High School: A Micro Semiotic Analysis
Keywords: moral value; EFL textbooks; micro semiotic analysis
Since English is learnt by many people around the world, moral values should be included in the materials of textbook to help learners become more aware of different moral values to promote moral understanding. The EFL textbook for twelfth grade senior high school was chosen because in such a stage, students are required to think more critically to gather information from the higher level materials.
The formulation of the research problem were: First, What moral values are represented in the EFL textbook published by the Ministry of National Education and culture in twelfth grade for senior high school students? Second, How does the English textbook for senior high school published by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia represent moral values?
The objectives of this research was: First, to describe moral values are represented in the EFL textbook published by the Ministry of National Education and culture in twelfth grade for senior high school students. Second, to describe how moral values are represented in the visual picture and written text within EFL textbook published by the Ministry of National Education and Culture in twelfth grade for senior high school students.
To answer those research questions, this research explored qualitative as the approach in analyzing moral values in English Textbook. Document analysis was used as research design. The data of this research was used in the textbook were visual pictures and written text in English Textbook Entitled “Buku Bahasa Inggris” for Twelft Grade Students of Senior High School. The data were analyzed by using Micro-semiotic the analysis model of Kress and Van leuweens (2006) that involved: (a) Ideational, (b) Interpersonal and (c) Textual Meaning. To find the validity of the data the researcher used investigator validation.
After analyzing the data, The findings show that out of the 18 moral values stated in the curriculum. Which involved Religiosity (3,5%), Honesty (13,7%) Tolerance (7,2%), Discipline (18,6%), Hard work (5,5%) Creativity (4,4%), Independence (7,4%), Democracy (1,5%), Curiosity (5,2%), Patriotism (2,2%), Nationalism (0,9%), Respect for others (3,3%), Peace-loving (3,3%), Friendliness (10,5%), Love to read (3,7%), Environmental sensitivity (3,0%), Social awareness (3,5%), and Responsibility (2,6%). The most dominant moral value in ELT textbook was discipline, with 85 occurrences (18.6%). There are 18 moral values revealed to be present in the EFL textbook through 16 pictures and 5 written texts chosen to be analysed. The most negligible moral value was nationalism, with 7 occurrences (0.9%). It was concluded that since the eighteen moral values in the textbooks were applied totally and categorized as good in term of covering moral values recommended by the Ministry of National Education. In addition, This textbook was recommended for English teachers and was appropriate for English language learning resources for senior high school twelfth grade.

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