An Analysis of Barrett’s Taxonomy’s Applications in Teacher Association (MGMP) Published English Workbooks (LKS) for Senior High Schools in Padang

Alhadi, Muhammad (2023) An Analysis of Barrett’s Taxonomy’s Applications in Teacher Association (MGMP) Published English Workbooks (LKS) for Senior High Schools in Padang. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Negeri Padang.

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Abstract

This research aimed to analyze questions in English Teacher Association (MGMP) Published English Workbooks (LKS) for Senior High School in Padang based on Barrett’s Taxonomy (1698) in Reading Comprehension questions. The taxonomy consists of five stages which are “Literal Comprehension,” “Reorganization,” “Inferential Comprehension,” “Evaluation,” and “Appreciation.” The research design used for this research is descriptive qualitative, and the instruments used to gather necessary data are an observation checklist and interview questions. The analyzed questions were classified based on the stages. The result of the analysis showed that from all the reading comprehension questions in all the workbooks observed, Inferential Comprehension is the stage that is applied by the questions the most, which is at 48.2%, followed by Literal Comprehension at 42.5%, Reorganization at 8%, Appreciation at 1%, and Evaluation at 0.3% of the total questions observed. Although all the stages of Barrett’s taxonomy are present in the workbooks, it does not imply that the taxonomy has been applied in the MGMP Published Workbooks, for the percentages of the questions from each stage do not resemble the recommended rates proposed for each of the stage, which are 40% for the Literal Comprehension and Reorganization stages, 40% for the Inferential stage, and 20% for the Evaluation and Appreciation stages. In addition to that, by interviewing members of the writing team of the workbooks, it was found that Barrett’s taxonomy had never been applied when constructing questions for the workbooks. This backs up the ideas that Barrett’s was not applied in MGMP Published English workbooks, and it should be taught to teacher.

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