Strategic Competence in Developing English Textbooks for Senior High Schools in Indonesia

Abstract

Strategic competence is paramount to be developed in English textbooks for senior high school students to achieve English communicative competence. This qualitative content analysis research aims to investigate the extent to which the English textbooks for senior high schools (SMA) in Indonesia have contained the strategic competence to help senior high school students use English communicatively and fluently in real-life communication. Content analysis research method was used to conduct this research from May to July 2021 in Indonesia with the data collected from English textbooks for Senior High Schools (Grades X, XI, and XII) developed by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Indonesia to be used nationwide. NVivo R1-5 software was used to process the collected data and to help the researcher analyse and interpret the data processing results. The findings of this research demonstrate that the three English textbooks (Grades X, XI, and XII) do not provide the material equally for the students to obtain strategic competence. Book X provides more material for strategic competence than Book XI and Book XII do. Kappa reliability test in NVivo R1-5 was used to test the trustworthiness of this research, the result of which is excellent with the value of >0.75. Because Book XI and Book XII still lack the material for the students to achieve strategic competence as a required competence to promote their English communicative competence, it is recommended that all the three books need to be revised for future use.