THE REPRESENTATION OF ECOLOGICAL THEMES ON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ENDORSED-ENGLISH TEXTBOOK

This study aims to examine national endorsed-english textbook for senior high school class X, XI, and XII on ecological themes since national endorsed-english textbook is the main learning media for students. It is supposed to contain knowledge or information which encourages students to improve their worthy critical thinking skill for ecological sustainability. It is very fundamental to represent ecological themes on national endorsed-english textbook. Data were collected from analyzing national endorsed-english textbook and also conducting interviews to gain additional data strengthening the previous collected data. Documented data were analyzed by doing critical discourse analysis based on ecological themes; ecological sensitivity, ecological knowledge, ecological skill, and ecological contribution. Critical discourse analysis is used to finding hidden meaning not only from texts, but also from pictures. The study reported that the highest number of ecological themes represented in national endorsed-english textbook for senior high school class X, XI, and XII was ecological knowledge for 19 items with total percentage 34,04%. About 31,91% in 15 items of the themes represented ecological sensitivity. Only 19,15% with 9 items and 14,90% with 7 items of the themes represented ecological contribution and ecological skill. The result shows that national endorsed-english textbook for senior high school class X, XI, and XII has represented the ecological themes while teacher’s perspective shows that it is lack of ecological themes representation. Therefore, english textbook should be given more of ecological themes to raise students’ awareness on ecological sustainability.