Universitas Islam Negeri Alauddin Makassar Proceedings, Proceedings of The Second National Seminar on English Language Teaching (NELT 2024)

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An Analysis of Speaking Activities in the Textbook “When English Rings a Bell” for 8th Grade Junior High School Based on Littlewood’s Communicativeness Continuum
Fatimah Akram Qasim, Hery Rahmat

Last modified: 2024-08-17

Abstract


The purpose of this content analysis study is to characterize the types and levels of communicativeness of speaking activities in the textbook 8th grade junior high school “When English Rings a Bell” written by Siti Wachidah, Asep Gunawan, Diyanti, and Yuli’s Rulani Khatimah. Two different data formats were used to obtain the data. A table containing the different speaking activities found in the textbook is the initial data format. The second data format, which is an adaptation of Littlwood's (2013), showed that the textbook contains a fair variety of speaking exercises, including role-playing, discussion, game communication, describing picture, storytelling, listen and repeat, and drill. Additionally, with a proportion of 81%, the speaking activities in the textbook have an “excellent” level of communicativeness.


Keywords


Speaking activities, Textbook, Littlewood’s communicativeness continuum

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