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This research is a content analysis research. The main objectives of the research are to: (1) discover whether Bahasa Inggris for 1st grade Senior High School Students meets the characteristics of good English textbook or not; and (2) find out the implementation of scientific approach in Bahasa Inggris for 1st grade Senior High School Students

This study is a content analysis research and was carried out at SMA N 7 Surakarta. The technique to collect the data were document analysis, questionnaire and interview. Two evaluators and five students from SMA N 7 Surakarta were asked to evaluate the textbook using the selected criteria. The evaluators were asked to fill out a questionnaire. In addition, they were interviewed. The students from SMA N 7 Surakarta were asked about their impression about the textbook by a questionnaire and interview The procedure used to analyzed the data is adapted from Elliot and Timulak (2005) which comprises: data preparation, delineating and processing meaning units, finding an overall organizing structure of the data, generation of categories, abstracting the main findings.

The findings of this research are: (1)Bahasa Inggris meets 2 of 6 citeria of good textbook. It means that there are 4 criteria that are not fulfilled by Bahasa Inggris, they are: language skills, language component, content and design/lay out. (2) The implementation of scientific approach in the textbook is 80 % and it is classified as “good”. The detail in every chapter gains score of 80%.

Keywords: content analysis, scientific approach, good textbook