The basic purpose of this research is to investigate to what extent the Real Time English textbook meets the criteria of a good textbook suggested by Alan Cunningworth.
This research used evaluative method, which refered to content analysis or documentary analysis. It was conducted from February 2013 to May 2014. The population of this research is the textbook for junior high school students year VIII, that is Real Time, written by Nina Bates, published by Penerbit Erlangga. In collecting the data, the writer used a documentary analysis as the technique. She took all units in the textbook analyzed as the sample of the research.
The findings of the study show that Real Time is fairly good. its percentage is 65.5%. The textbook fulfilled some criteria of a good textbook suggested by Alan Cunningsworth, it has 59 out of 90 score.
The result of this study implies that the teacher can use the textbook although it has not fulfilled all the demands of criteria of good textbook suggested by Alan Cunningsworth. The writer of the textbook should revise and add more language content, topic, and teachers’ book proportionally to make the quality of the whole textbook better.
