Task Types Fouund in the Textbooks “Bahasa Inggris: When English Rings a Bell” and Bright an English Course for Junior High school

This research is a descriptive research that is aimed to describe the task types and to see the frequent task types that appeared in the textbooks entitled “Bahasa Inggris: When English Rings a Bell” for 7th grade students published by Ministry of Education and Culture Indonesia and “BRIGHT’ An English Course for Junior High School published by Erlangga. The data was gained by using a data format. The data format is a table to classify the types the task types found in the textbooks. The data format is adapted from Nunan’s typology of task (1999). The result of this research revealed that most of the task types proposed by Nunan (1999) were covered by these two textbooks. However, some of the tasks had the highest frequency in each textbook, while some had the least. In addition, there were some subcategories that were ignored in each textbook. In “Bahasa Inggris: When English Rings a Bell” textbook, the task types that frequently appeared is interpersonal tasks. It indicates that this textbook mostly encourage learners to collaborate or communicate with other students. While in Bright an English Course for junior high school, linguistic tasks were more appeared in the textbook. It indicates that textbooks paid more attention to the grammatical aspects of language.