Analysis of speaking materials in the coursebook entitled "Scaffolding" for Grade VII

Course book is common media in teaching English as Foreign language. Language contents consist grammar and vocabulary and language skills include speaking, writing, reading and listening. The researcher focused on analyzing speaking materials because speaking is productive skill which is require student to practice more to convey the message to the audience. The problem that have been discussed in this research is to know the quality of the speaking materials in course book entitled “Scaffolding”. A descriptive qualitative research was used in this research. Data were taken and collected from pdf book. And because of the researcher limit, the speaking materials only taken from the odd chapter from the book by random sampling. After getting the data, the researcher was analyzed the data of speaking materials in course book with the criteria of good speaking materials and comparing two of them. The instrument in this research was checklist table taken from combining collected data and the criteria. The result of this research is that the quality of the speaking material in course book entitled “Scaffolding” for grade VII published by PUSAT PERBUKUAN Departemen Pendidikan Nasional 2008 is “Fair” with whole percentage 70,83 % in which the speaking materials in the coursebook is relevant with good speaking criteria on the checklist table.