ABSTRAK

This research is aimed to (1) determine whether the English textbook of “Interactive English 2” for grade VIII of Junior High School has applied the scientific approach of the 2013 Curriculum and (2) to investigate the extent of the Scientific Approach application in the English textbook “Interactive English 2” based on the 2013 Curriculum. The research design used is descriptive qualitative research. The researcher uses document in the form of textbook of Interactive English 2 as the data collection. The researcher took 4 Units of the book as the sample. The data were collected through the following techniques: (1) document analysis; (2) questionnaire; and (3) interview. The technique of analysing data is by using the theory proposed by Elliot and Timulak which includes: data preparation, deleaniting and processing meaning units, finding an overall organizing structure for the data, generation of categories, and abstracting the main findings. The textbook is analysed based on the scientific approach of the 2013 Curriculum which comprises of observing, questioning, collecting information, experimenting, associating, communicating, and creating. The findings of the research shows that The English textbook “Interactive English 2” has applied scientific approach based on the 2013 Curriculum. This can be seen from the total percentage in each unit of 100 % which means each Unit has applied scientific approach. However, all of the samples unit do not apply creating step and some of them do not contain questioning and communicating steps. The steps of scientific aprroach in a good order from the most used until the leats used are Observing, Collecting Information, Associating, Communicating, Questioning, and Creating. The compatibility of the application of scientific approach in the English textbok “Interactive English 2” is 73.334 %. This data is obtained from the detail that unit 1 gets 83.33 %, Unit 2 has 66.67 %, Unit 3 has 66.67 %, Unit 4 has 66.67 %, and Unit 6 has 83.33 %. Based on the interval percentage as suggested by Arikunto (1996, p. 224), the textbook achieves the “Good” level with 73.334 % of the total indicators that are fulfilled in the compatibility of materials in the Interactive English 2 textbook with the scientific approach. The activities used in each domain mostly by observing the phenomena using senses, asking and making questions, constructing and internalizing knowledge, finding expressions, practicing the materials, processing the information, thinking logically and empirically, doing task, and expressing meaning.

Keywords: scientific approach, content analysis, descriptive qualitative, 2013 Curriculum, Interactive English 2