Students' perspectives of international English coursebook in Indonesian EFL Classrooms

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Anisah, Nur (2020) Students' perspectives of international English coursebook in Indonesian EFL Classrooms. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

Nowadays, International English Coursebook which is designed based on the International Curriculum becomes one of the English coursebooks used in Indonesian EFL classrooms. This kind of English Coursebook not only used by the schools that implement the International curriculum but also used by the schools that implement national ones. “English in Mind” is an International English coursebook designing according to the International Cambridge curriculum and it is implemented by several schools in Indonesia. From this phenomenon, this study aimed to describe students’ perspectives of the use of the International English coursebook in EFL classrooms and explore its benefit in classroom practices. The study used a qualitative approach and collect the data at Al-Muslim Senior High School as an Islamic School who implement the 2013 Curriculum by interviewing an English Teacher there and distributing questionnaires to 30 students who use “English in Mind” in their EFL classrooms. This study found that “English in Mind” was used as a source of materials, a source of learning culture, and provides learning activities. Students also believed that ‘English in mind’ provided interesting materials by offering the tasks or activities that could facilitate students’ vocabulary skills, and improve their receptive skills such as listening and reading.