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                                              Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature, Vol 2, No 2, 2017 
                               The Quality of English Coursebook for Nursing 
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                                                       Qoriatur Rahma 
                                                            Safnil 
                                                            Arono 
                                                                 
                                                    University of Bengkulu  
                         
                        Abstract:  
                        This  research  was  aimed  to  find  out    WKH VWXGHQWV¶ OHFWXUHUV¶ DQG H[SHUWV¶
                        perspective toward the quality of the English coursebook for nursing department 
                        students. This research was an evaluative study. The participants of this research 
                        were  3  experts,  3  lecturers  and  80  nursing  students.  The  instrument  of  this 
                        research was an evaluation checklist based on  0F'RQRXJKDQG6KDZ¶Vcriteria.  
                        The findings of the research were (1) over eighty percent participants agreed that 
                        syllabus  fulfills  the  criteria  for  quality  a  nursing  coursebook;  (2)  over  eighty 
                        percent participants agreed that the content area fulfills the criteria for quality a 
                        nursing coursebook; (3) over ninety percent participants agreed that layout and 
                        physical appearance fulfills the criteria for quality a nursing coursebook; (4) over 
                        eighty percent participants agreed that practicality  fulfills the criteria for quality a 
                        nursing coursebook; (5) over eighty percent participants agreed that language use  
                        fulfills the criteria for quality a nursing coursebook. 
                         
                        Key Words:  English for Specific Purpose (ESP), Coursebook, Perspective 
                        INTRODUCTION
                        English is an international language       which  English  is  considered  as  a 
                        and its importance causes people to        foreign  language  not  as  a  second 
                        use it around of the world. ESP is an      language,  the  main  and  the  only 
                        abbreviation that implies English for      source of English is ESP classroom. 
                        specific   purposes.    The    main        According to Riazi (2003), in second 
                        definition  of  this  word  is  to  teach  or  foreign  language  contexts,  after 
                        some  of  the  specific      English       teachers  textbook  is  the  prominent 
                        vocabularies that are related specially    factor. Therefore, one of the factors 
                        to  the  learners  with  specific  aims,   that can be helpful in designing ESP 
                        fields  of  study,  or  occupation,  such  courses  is  provided  by  textbook 
                        as  medicine,  engineering,  etc.  We      analysis    and    evaluation.   The 
                        can  define  this  word,  ESP,  from       language  of  the  most  of  the 
                        different  aspects,  but  all  of  these   educational  textbooks  notably  in 
                        definitions  show  that  how  ESP          medicine  or  engineering  in  foreign 
                        course  is  designed  to  teach  its       language  countries  such  as  in 
                        specific learner to learn English.         indonesia  is  English.  Therefore,  the 
                               Based  on  Dudley-Evans  and        universities of these countries in their 
                        St.  John  (1998),  the  countries  in 
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                                                     Rahma, Safnil, Arono, The quality of English course book« 
                         curriculums have the ESP course as                    As one of ESP Coursebook, 
                         an essential course.                          English  II  coursebook  for  nursing 
                                 Moreover,     the    use     of       science study program POLTEKKES 
                         coursebooks in ELT is more popular            Provinsi Bengkulu became the object 
                         than  ever  before,  especially  after        to be analyzed in this research. Since 
                         innumerable ELT preparatory classes           the  content  of  this  coursebook  was 
                         have  been  established  for  a  large        QRW DSSURSULDWH WR WKH VWXGHQWV¶
                         number      of     departments       at       needs,  the  content  was  also  not 
                         universities,  private  schools,  and         repetitive and unsuitable with part of 
                         some  state  schools.  Moreover,  the         speaking        content        material 
                         school administrations and circles of         instruments  tools,  for  example;  the 
                         English  teachers  prefer  ready-made         unit materials explains about medical 
                         coursebooks  because  they  possibly          instruments  (  the  tools  and  use)  in 
                         provide  ready-made  syllabi  to  be          unit 5 but  in the speaking skill part,  
                         followed  by  teachers.  Thus,  the           the  material  which  is  explained  is 
                         coursebooks have gradually become             about  Self-Introduction  to  other 
                         the most pervasive tool for language          people. For the next, the example in 
                         instruction. As Richards and Rodgers          the part of Talk on pregnancy unit 7,  
                         (2001)  state,  coursebooks  are  an          the  author  gives  writing  task,  the 
                         unavoidable      element     of    the        question is to read articles and write 
                         curriculum  because  they  specify            simple  present  tense.  And  also  for 
                         content  and  define  coverage  for           listening skill, the practice tasks are 
                         syllabus items. And also for the EFL          not  clearly  enough  defined.  The 
                         learners, coursebook has become the           UHVHDUFKHU¶V  DQDO\VLV  UHVXOW  DOVR
                         source they have with language apart          found  that  the  author  designed  the 
                         from  the  input  provided  by  the           ERRNZLWKRXWDQDO\]HGWKHVWXGHQWV¶
                         classroom     teacher     and    other        needs  first,  and  as  the  impact,  the 
                         reference  materials  (Hutchinson  &          students got low score in final test.  
                         Torres, 1994). At the other extreme,                  However,      the   researcher 
                         coursebooks  are  seen  to  have  a           realized that her analysis result was 
                         tendency to dictate what is taught, in        not    enough     to   evaluate    this 
                         an intentional order, and they have a         coursebook, therefore the researcher 
                         serious impact on how teachers use            conducted  a  research  about  the 
                         them    (McGrath,2006).      Although         quality  of  English  the  quality  of 
                         coursebooks     are    seen    as   an        English    coursebook  for  nursing 
                         indispensable  tool  of  the  language        GHSDUWPHQW    VWXGHQW    VWXGHQWV¶
                         arts  instruction,  they  are  hardly         OHFWXUHUV¶ DQG H[SHUWV¶ SHUVSHFWLYH 
                         evaluated for their appropriateness to        based on  Mc. Donough and Shaw.  
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                         and interests (Ajayi, 2005). 
                          
                         METHODOLOGY
                                  This study used a                    procedure  evaluation  in  collecting 
                         descriptive     qualitative    method         and analyzing data in systematic to 
                         (evaluative  study).  According  to           determine the value or  benefit  of  a 
                         Sukamadinata     (2010)    descriptive        practice.  The  participants  of  this 
                         qualitative  research  is  a  design  and     research  were  80  nursing  students 
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                                                Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature, Vol 2, No 2, 2017 
                        who  used  the  textbook,  3  experts        nurse,  program  third  and  third 
                        (SY, ID, MGH) and 3 lecturers (EU,           semester  in  Politeknik  Kesehatan 
                        MI,    YM),  they  are  education            Bengkulu      in    academic     year 
                        background  SY  (S3  University  of          2015/2016.  
                        Jakarta),    ID     (S3    University                 Evaluation          checklist 
                        Linguistic UGM), GMH (S2 English             developed for the Evaluation course 
                        education Study Program Malang).             book  based  on  Mc.Donough  and 
                        And 3 lecturers (EU, MI, YM) They            6KDZ¶VFULWHULD,QJHQHUDO, checklist 
                        are education background are EU (S2          is  list  of  questions  which  describes 
                        Universisty  of  Jakarta,  MI  (S2           the   things  which  relevant  with 
                        University of Padang), and YM( s2            current phenomenon being checked.  
                        University of Jakarta) then they are (               In   collecting   data,    the 
                        who  had  experience  in  teaching           researcher used an Mc.Donough and 
                        English for nursing students.                6KDZ¶VFULWHULDFKHFNOLVWZKLFKZHUH
                                 The main data source of the         distributed  to  the  students,  writers, 
                        research  were  all  the  contents  in       lecturer, and expert. In the process of 
                        English  course  book  entitle  English      collecting data, the researcher helped 
                        for  Specific  Purpose  English  for         by supervisor, co supervisor and two 
                        Nursing Course Book, all of students         validators.
                         
                        RESULT AND DISCUSSION 
                                The  instruments  that  have         namely;  students,  lecturers,  and 
                        been used to  collect  the  data  about      experts.  There  were  80  students,  3 
                        this   research   is  an   evaluation        lecturers,  and    3  experts  who  gave 
                        checklist  with  field  note.  Since  this   their  perception    and   evaluation 
                        research discusses about perspective,        toward  the  quality  of  English 
                        the checklist was used to collect the        coursebook  for  nursing  department 
                        GDWD   DERXW    WKH   SDUWLFLSDQWV¶      students. All of the data that has been 
                        perpectives and field note was used          collected  was  displayed  as  the 
                        to  know  about  the  suggestions  that      finding of this research. In addition, 
                        were given by the participants. The          WKH VXPPDU\ RI WKH SDUWLFLSDQWV¶
                        participants  of  this  research  were       perspective for syllabus criterian will 
                        divided    into   three   professions,       be revealed in figure below. 
                         
                           60%                          54% 
                           40%         34% 
                           20%                                           10%              2% 
                            0%
                                   Strongly Agree      Agree           Disagree     Strongly Disagree
                                                             Percentage
                                                                                                        
                                                               
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                                                            Book  
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                                                     Rahma, Safnil, Arono, The quality of English course book« 
                                 Regarding  to  Figure  4.1             evaluation. Overall, the lecturers and 
                         above, 54% of participants agreed all          experts suggested about the text used 
                         the  positive  statements  in  syllabus        in  the  coursebook  and  some  of 
                         evaluation  checklist.  It  means  that        pictures  that  can  be  used  as  an 
                         WKHVWXGHQWV¶OHFWXUHUV¶DQGH[SHUWV¶       additional  of  the  coursebook.    In 
                         perspective    toward  the  syllabus           addition,    the   summary  of  the 
                         criterian  of  English  coursebook  for        SDUWLFLSDQWV¶ SHUVSHFWLYH IRU VXEMHFW
                         nursing  students  was  positive  with         and    contents    criterian  will   be 
                         54%  of  participants  agreed  all  the        revealed in figure below.  
                         items     mentioned      in    syllabus 
                          
                                 60%                         50% 
                                 50%
                                 40%         37% 
                                 30%
                                 20%                                         11% 
                                 10%                                                          2% 
                                  0%
                                        Strongly Agree      Agree          Disagree    Strongly Disagree
                                                                 Percentage
                                                                                                           
                                                                  
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                                                          Course Book 
                                 Regarding  to  Figure  4.2                     Mostly  lecturers  and  experts 
                         above, 50% of participants agreed all          suggested  to  add  some  pictures  to 
                         the positive statements in subject and         make the book more interesting and 
                         contents    evaluation  checklist.    It       also to check the font size of the title 
                         PHDQVWKDW WKH VWXGHQWV¶ OHFWXUHUV¶      and sub title of the book. However, 
                         DQGH[SHUWV¶SHUVSHFWLYH WRZDUGWKH          the sugestions became the evaluation 
                         subject  and  contents  of  English            of the quality of this book. Then, the 
                         coursebook for nursing students was            summaU\      RI   WKH   SDUWLFLSDQWV¶
                         positive  with  50%  of  participants          perspective  for  layout  and  physical 
                         agreed  all  the  items  mentioned  in         appearance criterian will be revealed 
                         syllabus evaluation.                           in figure below.  
                                  
                                60%                         57% 
                                40%         33% 
                                20%                                          9%              1% 
                                 0%
                                        Strongly Agree      Agree         Disagree    Strongly Disagree
                                                                Percentage
                                                                                                          
                                                                  
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                                                           Course Book 
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